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moratto ? Obs.|mɒˈrætəʊ|
Also 8 morotto, 9 marotta.
A kind of pea.
1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Pisum, The Spanish Morotto Pea... The Spanish Morotto..is a great Bearer, and a hardy Sort of Pea. 1789J. Farley Lond. Art of Cookery (ed. 6) 163 Take a quart of green Moratto peas. 1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. (ed. 2) §3599 The egg, the moratto, the Prussian blue, and the rouncivals..are all very fine eating peas in young growth. 1835Trans. Horticult. Soc. Ser. ii. I. 386 Varieties of the Pea..Spanish Marotta. |