Carolinan.
/karəˈlʌɪnə/ Applied to the Sweet Potato (see quot. 1884), and used in the names of various plants and animals, see Carolina ash, Carolina osprey, Carolina whiting, etc., and Compounds. See also Caroline adj. 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > sweet potato
potato1565
batata1577
potato root1583
Spanish potato1599
red batata1696
Virginia potato1715
sweet potato1750
yam1753
kumara1773
boniato1800
camote1842
Carolina potato1848
Carolina1884
mickey1936
kau kau1937
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > sweet potato
batata1577
potato root1583
red batata1696
sweet potato1750
yam1753
kumara1773
camote1842
Carolina1884
1735 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 317 Alburnus Americanus, the Carolina-Whiting.
a1813 A. Wilson & C. L. Bonaparte Amer. Ornith. (1831) III. 110 Rallus carolinensis..Carolina Rail.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery i. 44 The Patna..rice..is not so good as the Carolina for the general purposes of cookery.
1858 J. A. Warder Hedge Man. ii. 279 Carolina Laurel is a native evergreen found from Virginia to Louisiana.
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 216 The Carolina dove (Zenaidura carolinensis) is very numerous.
1881 Amer. Naturalist 15 522 The Carolina wax-wing, close cousin to that big Bohemian.
1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 442/1 The sweet potato was adopted from the aborigines in all the Southern colonies, and it is yet known in the market as the ‘Carolina’.
Compounds
Carolina allspice n. the flowering shrub Calycanthus floridus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > North-American > Calycanthus or California allspice
allspice1759
strawberry bush1856
Calycanthus1864
calycanth1866
Carolina allspice1866
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 203 Carolina Allspice or Sweet-scented shrub.
Carolina pink n. Spigelia Marilandica, also called Indian Pink, of which the root is an active anthelmintic; cf. pinkroot n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > medicinal roots > pinkroot
pinkroot1764
Carolina pink1821
Maryland pinkroot1870
1821 A. Royall Lett. from Alabama (1830) xliv. 138 This is the region of the Carolina pinx.
1860 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 3) Pink Root,..also known as the Carolina Pink.
1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 399 The Pink-root..is quite generally known as Carolina Pink also.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > sweet potato
potato1565
batata1577
potato root1583
Spanish potato1599
red batata1696
Virginia potato1715
sweet potato1750
yam1753
kumara1773
boniato1800
camote1842
Carolina potato1848
Carolina1884
mickey1936
kau kau1937
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Carolina potato, the sweet potato..so called in the Eastern States.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ii. 34 Shaped like a Carolina potato.
Carolina rice n. a variety of rice, the ripe husk of which is yellowish.
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the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > rice > types of
white rice1614
rough rice1735
wild rice1748
Carolina rice1787
Patna rice1795
rough1837
basmati1845
small1882
palay1889
brown rice1916
arborio1951
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > rice > types of rice or rice-plants
fundi1670
ricea1710
wild rice1748
zizania1756
zizany1759
water oats1771
Canada rice1786
Carolina rice1787
menomin1791
Patna rice1795
Indian rice1809
pulut1820
dhan1832
hungry rice1858
swamp rice1861
Menominee1949
miracle rice1968
1787 T. Jefferson Let. 30 July in Papers (1955) XI. 644 The Carolina rice..crumbles, in certain forms of preparation.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery i. 45 The Carolina rice even answers, well dressed, in this way.
1962 Guardian 12 Jan. 8/5 Soak a breakfast-cupful of Carolina rice.
Draft additions 1993
Carolina duck n. = summer duck n. at summer n.1 and adj. Compounds 5.
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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Aex (wood-duck)
summer duck1732
wood-duck1777
Carolina duck1784
mandarin duck1797
mandarin1860
1784 F. Boscawen Let. in C. F. Aspinall-Oglander Admiral's Widow (1942) 115 Many winged families of most respectable size and beautiful feather, especially Carolina ducks, which I judged to be the Summer duck, so rare and beautiful.
1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. 1 1 Acorn-duck, a name given in some parts of North America to the Carolina or Wood-Duck.
1940 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds III. 282 Wanderers from captivity or semi-captivity of..the Carolina or Wood-Duck,..and other species are frequently reported.
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