Indian bread
/ˌɪndɪən ˈbrɛd/noun
1 North American. Bread made from Indian corn; cornbread.
2 North American. The underground sclerotium of a bracket fungus (Poria cocos, class Hymenomycetes), which was used as a food by North American Indians, typically to make a kind of bread.
- Formerly known by several other taxonomic names, especially Pachyma cocos and Lycoperdon solidum..
Origin
Late 16th century (in an earlier sense). From Indian + bread.
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