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单词 swine-bread
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swine-breadn.

Brit. /ˈswʌɪnbrɛd/, U.S. /ˈswaɪnˌbrɛd/
Forms:

α. 1500s swynes brede, 1500s–1600s swynes breade, 1500s–1700s swine's bread.

β. see swine n. and bread n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: swine n., bread n.
Etymology: In α. forms < the genitive of swine n. + bread n. In β. forms < swine n. + bread n. Compare sow-bread n.In all senses with reference to the plants being attractive to pigs as food. With sense 1 compare post-classical Latin panis porcinus (from 14th cent. in British and continental sources), and also Middle High German (in late sources) sweinprōt (German Schweinbrot, Schweinsbrot), Old Occitan pan porcin (13th cent.), Middle French, French pain de pourceau (1538), †pain porcin (late 16th cent.).
1. The tuberous root of any of various Eurasian species of cyclamen; (also) any of these plants; = sow-bread n. Now historical and rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > cyclamen
earth applelOE
dill-nuta1450
swine-bread1526
rape violet1548
cyclamen?1550
sow-bread?1550
sow's bread1558
lady's seal1592
hog's bread1607
sow-wort1838
1526 Grete Herball viii. sig. A.v/2 A rote called malum terre, or swynes brede.
1568 W. Turner New Bk. Natures of Wines sig. F.viv To them that are diseased in the milt, the roote of Swines bread, called Cyclamem, or the barkes of Capers, or put vnto the sixt part of pepper.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iii. 98 Swines-bread, so vsed, doth not onely speed A tardy labour; but (without great heed) If ouer it a Child-great Woman stride, Instant abortion often doth betide.
1788 tr. C. E. Savary Lett. on Greece xxxvii. 386 The herb, which we call swine's bread, fringes the foot of these rocks; and, in Spring, adorns the ground with its elegant flower.
1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 234 Swine-bread is an old name for it; and the French call it Pain de Porceau, or, as it is provincially termed, Pain de pur.
2010 Kentish Express (Nexis) 18 Nov. The name sowbread, or swinebread, originates from the plant being regularly fed to pigs in southern Europe.
2. A truffle. Also as a mass noun. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > mushrooms or edible fungi > truffle or underground fungus
truffle1591
truff1633
earthnutc1660
trub1668
swine-bread1677
tuber1704
deer-ball1854
earth-ball1863
hart's-balls1866
hart's-truffle1866
Perigord truffle1869
oak-truffle1874
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. i. sig. *Oooo2v/1 Trufe, Sow-bread, or swine bread (a most dainty kind of round and russet root).
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant vi. 68 Tis not so hard a Task to know the delicious Earth-Apples or Swine-bread [Fr. Trufes].
1704 tr. L. Lémery Treat. Foods i. lxiv. 97 Swine-Bread contains much Oil, essential Salt, and Earth.
1777 J. Wesley Surv. Wisdom God (ed. 3) IV. 195 A swine-bread, an agaric, a liverwort, on the contrary,..have in them so small a resemblance to plants.
1849 Visitor 432/1 Swine are fond of this mushroom, and skilled in detecting it; and on this account it has been called swine's-bread.
3. Scottish. The plant pignut ( Conopodium majus).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > earth-nut or plant
earthnutOE
earth chestnut1578
cipper-nut1653
hog-nut1771
swine-bread1888
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Pig-nut, sb. the earth nut. Bunium flexuosum. Called Swine-bread in Inverness-shire.
1972 in Sc. National Dict. (1974) IX. 163/2 Swine-bread.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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