单词 | taro-plain |
释义 | > as lemmastaro-plain b. attributive, as taro-patch, taro-plain, taro-plant, taro-plantation, taro-root, taro-swamp. Π 1814 W. Brown Hist. Propagation Christianity II. 400 A large piece of ground stocked with breadfruit, cocoa nuts, and tarro roots. 1846 G. A. Lundie Missionary Life Samoa xxii. 141 All are busy building houses and clearing for taro-patches. 1847 J. G. Whittier Dan. Wheeler 79 Amidst Owyhee's hills of blue And taro-plains of Tooboonai. 1894 Daily News 11 Sept. 6/1 Streams of water..fertilising thousands of taro plantations. 1894 B. Thomson S. Sea Yarns 111 The taro swamp was hard and fissured. < as lemmas |
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