单词 | indian bread |
释义 | Indian breadn.ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > cassava or cassava plant manioca1544 cassava1555 yucca1555 Indian bread1597 cassadaa1643 datil1882 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > cassava or manioc bread cassava1577 Indian bread1697 cassada1802 chipa1827 kwanga1891 garri1926 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1359 The Indian bread called Cazaua. 1644 W. Castell Short Discov. Coasts & Continent Amer. ii. 7 They live in houses upon trees very artificially built, their food being Indian bread..and venisons. 1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 416 Very much worse is the Cassava Root of which the Indian Bread is made. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Indian-Bread, see the article Cassada-Bread. 2. North American. Bread made from Indian corn; cornbread. Cf. Indian adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > maize bread pone1634 Indian bread1654 maize bread1663 kankie1735 hoecake1745 corn-bread1775 pone breadc1785 crackling-bread1834 Awendaw1847 piki1859 1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. xxxvi The want of English graine, Wheate, Barly and Rie proved a sore affliction to some stomacks, who could not live upon Indian bread. 1765 H. Timberlake Mem. 30 Fried meats of several kinds, and very good Indian bread, baked in a very curious way. 1784 L. S. Porcupine, alias Hedge-hog 27 The rich farmer's family lived upon nothing but salt-pork, water-cyder, Indian bread, and skim-milk, except on thanksgivingdays, and then they allowed themselves a whortle-berry pudding. 1801 Kennebec (Maine) Gaz. 19 June 4/1 With roast potatoes, beans, and indian bread, By jingoes thou shalt daintily be fed. 1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life I. 117 The long narrow table..is covered with Yankee luxuries—hot Indian bread, milk-toast, hot rolls. 1895 ‘M. Ronald’ Cent. Cook Bk. (1900) 236 Thin Indian Bread. 1901 Papers & Rec. Ont. Hist. Soc. 3 106 We..were..compelled to pound it [sc. Indian corn] in a large mortar, manufacturing what we call ‘Samp’, which was made into Indian bread. 1970 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 21/2 Indian bread—with cornmeal. 2000 B. Sound in G. Weiss et al. Trying to get it Back 150 Our mothers would come up during the week and bring us some Indian bread and some apples and stuff like that. 3. North American. The underground sclerotium of a bracket fungus ( Poria cocos, class Hymenomycetes), which was used as a food by North American Indians, typically to make a kind of bread; = tuckahoe n. 2.Formerly known by several other taxonomic names, especially Pachyma cocos and Lycoperdon solidum. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > fungi > [noun] > other underground fungi Indian bread1820 native bread1831 blackfellow's bread1871 1820 Abstr. Proc. Lyceum Nat. Hist. in Amer. Jrnl. Nov. 369 Dr. Torrey read a memoir on the Tuckahoe, or Indian bread, a subterraneous fungus of the southern states. 1845 Cultivator 2 221/2 We have often heard of the plant called at the south ‘tuckahoe’, or sometimes ‘Indian bread’, but having never seen one, had no idea till lately that it was closely allied to, if not identical with some of the European species of truffle. 1869 F. P. Porcher Resources of Southern Fields & Forests 699 Tuckahoe; Indian bread or Indian loaf (Lycoperdon solidum, Pachyma cocos, Schw.). 1929 Mycologia 21 116 Unger..wrote that the tuckahoe was found in the southern states of North America and referred to it as the Indian potato or Indian bread. 1962 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China IV. i. 31 The fungus called tuckahoe or Indian bread [Auth. note: Pachyma, the sclerotial condition of Polyporus cocos.] 1996 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 24 July e 1 Indian bread fungus (Wolfiporia cocos or Fu ling): believed to calm the heart and help the body release excess fluid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597 |
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