| 单词 | cocoa-root |
| 释义 | > as lemmascocoa-root The tuber of an Araceous plant Colocasia esculenta or taro-plant, cultivated in the West Indies as an article of food. Also called coco-root, cocoa-root. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > taro cocco1756 taro1769 koko1874 dalo1879 dasheen1899 cocoyam1922 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 332 The purple Cocco, and Tannier... The root[s]..supply many of the poorer sort of people with what they call Bread-kind. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 305 Cocoa-root or Coco. 1887 D. Morris Linn. Soc. Jrnl. Bot. XXIV. What are known as Cocoes..form an important element in the food of West-Indian negroes. 1887 G. Massee Linn. Soc. Jrnl. Bot. XXIV. Report on the disease of ‘Cocoes’ in Jamaica. < as lemmas |
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