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单词 kumara
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kumaran.

Brit. /ˈkuːmərə/, U.S. /ˈkumərə/, New Zealand English /ˈkuːmʌrʌ/, /ˈkuːmərə/
Forms: Also kumera.
Etymology: Maori name.
New Zealand.
The sweet potato, Ipomæa batatas.
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1773 S. Parkinson Jrnl. Voy. South Seas in Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 1877 (1878) 10 ix. 124 Several canoes came alongside..of whom we got some fish, kumeras or sweet potatoes, and several other things.
1851 H. R. Richmond Jrnl. 23 Feb. in Richmond–Atkinson Papers (1960) I. ii. 88 There was nothing else to help ourselves to except kumara or sweet potato, in appearance like long thin potatoes, in taste like boiled chesnuts.
1884 T. Bracken Lays of Maori 18 Some more dainty toothsome dish Than the kumera and fish.
1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 231 A great pie-dish full of kumaras.
1905 W. Baucke Where White Man Treads 2 Parklands, blurred and dotted with plantations of kumara.
1934 Bulletin (Sydney) 26 Sept. 20/1 The supplies of pig, eel, shark and kumara were unlimited.
1936 ‘R. Hyde’ Check to your King xiii. 156 Great flax-kits of Kumaras..were left outside the door.
1955 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. July 55/1 Most home gardeners purchase their kumara plants from seedsmen.
1971 N.Z. Listener 16 Aug. 54/4 Be careful with the kumara... Its energy value is twice that of the potato.
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