英语词汇“hottentot bread”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Hottentot bread n. (also Hottentot's bread) [originally after German †Hottentotts-Brod root of the arum lily (1719 in the passage translated in quot. 1731); in sense ‘elephant's foot’ probably after South African Dutch hottentotsbrood (1869 or earlier; Afrikaans hottentotsbrood)] any of several South African plants formerly used to produce a food resembling bread, esp. elephant's foot, Dioscorea elephantipes (family Dioscoreaceae), a climbing plant related to the yam, having a starchy tuberous stem; (formerly also) †the root of the arum lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica, which is eaten by pigs in South Africa (obsolete; cf. pig lily n. at pig n.¹ Compounds 2b.).

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1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 223 The root of the Arum..is ordinarily call'd Hottentot-Bread. They boil out its acrimony in two or three fresh waters, and then dry it in the sun.

1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 718 The root~stock of Testudinaria elephantipes, called Elephant's Foot or Hottentot's Bread, forms a large, fleshy mass covered with a rough and cracked bark.

1929 D. Reitz Commando 240 A strange growth known as ‘Hottentot's bread’ (Encephalartos Altensteinii), a wild fruit not unlike a large pine-apple.

1998 National Gardening Apr. 76/3 I'm looking for seeds of..elephant's foot or Hottentot's bread (Dioscorea elephantipes ).

单词	hottentot bread
释义	> as lemmas Hottentot bread Hottentot bread n. (also Hottentot's bread) [originally after German †Hottentotts-Brod root of the arum lily (1719 in the passage translated in quot. 1731); in sense ‘elephant's foot’ probably after South African Dutch hottentotsbrood (1869 or earlier; Afrikaans hottentotsbrood)] any of several South African plants formerly used to produce a food resembling bread, esp. elephant's foot, Dioscorea elephantipes (family Dioscoreaceae), a climbing plant related to the yam, having a starchy tuberous stem; (formerly also) †the root of the arum lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica, which is eaten by pigs in South Africa (obsolete; cf. pig lily n. at pig n.¹ Compounds 2b.). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > yam > elephant's foot Hottentot bread1731 tortoise-plant1866 1731 G. Medley tr. P. Kolb Present State Cape Good-Hope II. 223 The root of the Arum..is ordinarily call'd Hottentot-Bread. They boil out its acrimony in two or three fresh waters, and then dry it in the sun. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 718 The root~stock of Testudinaria elephantipes, called Elephant's Foot or Hottentot's Bread, forms a large, fleshy mass covered with a rough and cracked bark. 1929 D. Reitz Commando 240 A strange growth known as ‘Hottentot's bread’ (Encephalartos Altensteinii), a wild fruit not unlike a large pine-apple. 1998 National Gardening Apr. 76/3 I'm looking for seeds of..elephant's foot or Hottentot's bread (Dioscorea elephantipes ). extracted from Hottentotn.adj. < as lemmas
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