| 单词 | carolina osprey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCarolina osprey 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. ΘΚΠ 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’. < as lemmas |
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