| 单词 | prairie apple |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprairie apple prairie apple n. [after French pome de prairie (1820 or earlier: see quot. 1820)] = prairie turnip n. ΚΠ 1820 in Missouri Hist. Soc. Coll. (1908–11) 3 21 The guide today gave me what he called pome de prairie (prairie apple) which he found & which he says the Indians are very fond of—I ate of it; its taste resembling that of a buckeye nut, its shape a pear. 1872 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 820/1 P[soralea] esculenta, the Bread-root of North America, and Prairie Apple of the Canadian boatmen, is an herbaceous perennial..with a carrot-like root. 1939 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 26 530/1 (caption) Astragalus crassicarpus Nutt. (prairie apple) growing on the Chugwater formation of the Triassic system about 7 miles east of Laramie. 1993 T. Coffey Hist. & Folklore N. Amer. Wildflowers 130/1 Breadroot, Pediomelum esculentum... Prairie-Apple, Prairie-Potato, Prairie-Turnip, Scurf-Pea, Tipsin (S. Dak.). < as lemmas |
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