| 单词 | indian turnip |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIndian turnip Indian turnip n. (a) the tuberous root of Jack-in-the-pulpit, Arisaema triphyllum (family Araceae); (also) the plant itself; (b) the edible tuberous root of the North American leguminous plant, Pediomelum esculentum (also called breadroot). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > turnip > types of navew1527 navet1530 round rape1559 nape1562 round turnip1599 French turnip1731–3 Indian turnip1735 orange jelly1769 rutabaga1789 Swedish turnipc1791 Swede1812 teltow turnip1866 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip > types of rapea1398 round rape1559 nape1562 round turnip1599 yellow turnip1707 Indian turnip1735 tankard-turnip1744 orange jelly1769 white loaf1775 rutabaga1789 Swedish turnipc1791 Swedish turnipc1791 red-top1805 white top1807 Swede1812 yellow-top1838 ox-heart1846 1735 P. Collinson Let. 19 June in J. Bartram Corr. (1992) 11 Grows well. So doth..the Dragon & Indian Turnip. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 94 Psoralea esculenta,..the Indian Turnip,..used as food by the aborigines. 1873 J. Miller Life amongst Modocs x. 128 He [sc. winter] cut down the banners of the spring that night, lamb-tongue, Indian turnip and catella. 1973 R. C. Lommasson Nebraska Wild Flowers 48 One common name for this plant [sc. Psoralea esculenta] is Indian turnip because of the starch filled, ball-shaped storage organ which was used as food by Indians. 1998 S. McLean Home from Vinyl Cafe ix. 141 The way you identify Indian turnip, said his reference, was by its white root. Indian turnip b. Applied to plants of other genera having roots or tubers like those of the turnip, as Indian turnip, lion's turnip, prairie turnip: see these words; also St. Anthony's turnip, the bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus; wild turnip = Indian turnip (in both uses). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for sheep turnip1548 wild turnip1597 broouage1610 French turnip1731–3 brush-turnip1799 break1805 old man saltbush1866 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip > turnip plant > plants resembling turnip1597 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 182 Lyons Turnep [Leontopetalon] is of force to digest. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 94 Psoralea esculenta,..the Indian Turnip,..used as food by the aborigines. 1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 427 Arisæma triphyllum, Indian Turnip. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 176/1 B[ryonia] dioica, the Common Bryony... The root is used..as a purgative; but it is unsafe from its uncertain and sometimes violent action, whence the French call it Devil's-turnip. 1894 Gibson in Harper's Mag. 565 The wild arum of Great Britain..the foreign counterpart of our well known jack-in-the-pulpit, or Indian turnip. < as lemmas |
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