| 单词 | callaloo | 
| 释义 | callaloon. Caribbean.   Any of various plants used in the Caribbean region as culinary vegetables, esp. the amaranth (genus  Amaranthus), taro ( Colocasia esculenta and  C. antiquorum), and tannia or malanga (genus  Xanthosoma). Also: a soup or stew made with these; (also figurative) a mixture, a miscellany. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > other culinary vegetables > 			[noun]		 fenugreekc1000 oil wort1493 callaloo1696 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > 			[noun]		 > other vegetables callaloo1696 guar1882 1696    H. Sloane Catal. Plantarum in Jamaica 49  				Cararu brasiliensibus... Culilu, or Caterpillars. 1756    P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica  ii. ii. 174  				The branched Caleloe... The negroes..make use of it every day almost in the year. 1756    P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica  ii. ii. 340  				The prickly Calaloo..used as a green, when the more valuable sorts are scarce. 1764    Gentleman's Mag. 34 487/2  				They will here raise yams, cassada, the bonavist, angola, potatoes, Indian cale, callaloo, ochre, eddas, mint, thyme, and balm. 1810    F. Cuming Sketches Tour Western Country 297  				Mr. Green made me observe..the cullaloo or Indian Kail [near Natchez, Mississippi]. 1852    C. W. Day Five Years Resid. W. Indies I. vi. 103  				Boiled yams with a soup of pigeon-peas, or callalloo..forms the customary dinner. 1892    J. C. Harris On Plantation 122  				There was Callalou—a mixture of collards, poke salad, and turnip greens boiled for dinner and fried over for supper. 1899    A. Ireland Trop. Colonization iv. 140  				This meal commonly consists of boiled yams, eddoes, ocra, calalue and plantains, or as many of those vegetables as they can procure. 1929    W. J. Locke Ancestor Jorico viii. 107  				We were given..callaloo, which is an apotheosis of the American Okra soup. 1953    G. Lamming In Castle of my Skin xiv. 273  				A vegetable muddle called callalloo cooked with crab. 1969    Daily Tel. 11 Jan. 14/1  				Calalu (sometimes spelt ‘callaloo’), a green vegetable like spinach, makes wonderful soup. 1973    E. L. Ortiz Compl. Bk. Caribbean Cooking 432  				Taro..is known in Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad as coco, eddo and baddo, the leaves being called callaloo. 1992    Washington Post 23 Aug. (Book World) 8/2  				A fictional West Indian sport that is a callaloo of cricket and bridge. 2005    New Nation 26 Sept. 12/5  				We were served delicious callaloo soup. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < | 
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