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tortoise plant

noun

South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark

• Syn: ↑elephant's-foot, ↑Hottentot bread vine, ↑Hottentot's bread vine, ↑Dioscorea elephantipes

• Hypernyms: ↑vine

• Member Holonyms: ↑Dioscorea, ↑genus Dioscorea

• Part Meronyms: ↑Hottentot bread, ↑Hottentot's bread

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noun

: elephant's-foot 1b

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elephant's-foot.

[1865-70]

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tortoise plant noun

Elephant's-foot

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Main Entry: ↑tortoise

Useful english dictionary. 2012.