| 单词 | st anthony's turnip |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSt. Anthony's 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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