单词 | kumara |
释义 | kumaran. New Zealand. The sweet potato, Ipomæa batatas. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > sweet potato potato1565 batata1577 potato root1583 Spanish potato1599 red batata1696 Virginia potato1715 sweet potato1750 yam1753 kumara1773 boniato1800 camote1842 Carolina potato1848 Carolina1884 mickey1936 kau kau1937 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > sweet potato batata1577 potato root1583 red batata1696 sweet potato1750 yam1753 kumara1773 camote1842 Carolina1884 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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