单词 | callaloo |
释义 | callaloon. Caribbean. Any of various plants used in the Caribbean region as culinary vegetables, esp. the amaranth (genus Amaranthus), taro ( Colocasia esculenta and C. antiquorum), and tannia or malanga (genus Xanthosoma). Also: a soup or stew made with these; (also figurative) a mixture, a miscellany. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > other culinary vegetables > [noun] fenugreekc1000 oil wort1493 callaloo1696 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > other vegetables callaloo1696 guar1882 1696 H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 49 Cararu brasiliensibus... Culilu, or Caterpillars. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 174 The branched Caleloe... The negroes..make use of it every day almost in the year. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 340 The prickly Calaloo..used as a green, when the more valuable sorts are scarce. 1764 Gentleman's Mag. 34 487/2 They will here raise yams, cassada, the bonavist, angola, potatoes, Indian cale, callaloo, ochre, eddas, mint, thyme, and balm. 1810 F. Cuming Sketches Tour Western Country 297 Mr. Green made me observe..the cullaloo or Indian Kail [near Natchez, Mississippi]. 1852 C. W. Day Five Years Resid. W. Indies I. vi. 103 Boiled yams with a soup of pigeon-peas, or callalloo..forms the customary dinner. 1892 J. C. Harris On Plantation 122 There was Callalou—a mixture of collards, poke salad, and turnip greens boiled for dinner and fried over for supper. 1899 A. Ireland Trop. Colonization iv. 140 This meal commonly consists of boiled yams, eddoes, ocra, calalue and plantains, or as many of those vegetables as they can procure. 1929 W. J. Locke Ancestor Jorico viii. 107 We were given..callaloo, which is an apotheosis of the American Okra soup. 1953 G. Lamming In Castle of my Skin xiv. 273 A vegetable muddle called callalloo cooked with crab. 1969 Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 14/1 Calalu (sometimes spelt ‘callaloo’), a green vegetable like spinach, makes wonderful soup. 1973 E. L. Ortiz Compl. Bk. Caribbean Cooking 432 Taro..is known in Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad as coco, eddo and baddo, the leaves being called callaloo. 1992 Washington Post 23 Aug. (Book World) 8/2 A fictional West Indian sport that is a callaloo of cricket and bridge. 2005 New Nation 26 Sept. 12/5 We were served delicious callaloo soup. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1696 |
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