| 单词 | potato clay |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspotato clay potato clay n. [after Hopi tɨm?ncöqa < t?mna potato + c?qa moist earth, mud] a variety of clay traditionally used by Hopi Indians (frequently mixed with water) to neutralize bitterness, acidity, or toxins in foods such as wild potatoes, and sometimes in the production of pigments. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > other clays red clayc1475 urry1669 blae1724 cat-dirt1747 iron clay1750 till1762 mulatto clay1788 oak-tree clay1794 porcelain jasper1794 porcellanite1794 Karoo ground1836 plinthite1836 papa1851 Bradford clay1858 Indianaite1868 sinopite1868 hydrobiotite1881 pampas-clay1885 byon1892 potato clay1896 bentonite1898 quick clay1901 gumbotil1916 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > clay > [noun] > for making pigments potato clay1896 1896 Amer. Anthropologist 9 19 It is boiled and eaten with a talc of greasy taste called tümῖn' tcúka, ‘potato clay’. 1898 Internat. Folk-Lore Congr. World's Columbian Expos. 1893 I. 264 The corn having boiled about three-quarters of an hour, the pot is taken from the fire and its content poured upon the sieve, through which the purple-stained boiling water is strained upon the sumac berries. Some of the talc-like substance called potato-clay is then produced, and the operator puts a piece about the size of a walnut in his mouth, chewing it a little to soften it. 1936 Jrnl. Amer. Folk-lore 49 9 (note) Wild potato clay. 1980 J. T. Kavena Hopi Cookery 86 Add 1 cup of potato clay to the berries... Potato clay is a very fine clay found at the foot of the mesas. It is mixed with water to the consistency of thick cream and then used as a dip to neutralize the acid in wild potatoes or to add flavor and minerals to food. 1986 Jrnl. Chem. Ecol. 12 642 Potato clays are used habitually with a resource which otherwise is only modestly exploitable because of the presence of weak but quantitative toxins. 2005 P. W. Abrahams Ess. of Med. Geol. xvii. 450/1 The importance of these ‘potato clays’ can be judged from the suggestion that because all wild potatoes are poisonous to humans, the domestication of the modern potato..may have required geophagy at first. < as lemmas |
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