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The name (after Charles II.) of a North American colony, now forming two states (North C. and South C.) of the American Union; hence applied to the Sweet Potato (see quot.), and used in the names of various plants and animals, as Carolina ash, Carolina osprey, Carolina whiting; also Carolina allspice, the flowering shrub Calycanthus floridus; Carolina pink, Spigelia Marilandica, also called Indian Pink, of which the root is an active anthelmintic; Carolina rice, a variety of rice, the ripe husk of which is yellowish. See also Caroline a. 2.
1734Mortimer Nat. Hist. Carolina in Phil. Trans. XXXVIII. 317 Alburnus Americanus, the Carolina-Whiting. 1787Jefferson Let. 30 July in Writings (1853) II. 195 The Carolina rice..crumbles in certain forms of preparation. 1845E. Acton Mod. Cookery i. 44 The Patna..rice..is not so good as the Carolina for the general purposes of cookery. Ibid. 45 The Carolina rice even answers, well dressed, in this way. 1884Century 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’. 1866Treas. Bot. 203 Carolina Allspice or Sweet-scented shrub. 1962Guardian 12 Jan. 8/5 Soak a breakfast-cupful of Carolina rice.
Add: Carolina duck = summer duck s.v. summer n.1 6 b.
1784F. 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. 1893A. Newton Dict. Birds i. 1 Acorn-duck, a name given in some parts of North America to the Carolina or Wood-Duck. 1940H. 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. |