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Hottentot's bread

noun

thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot

• Syn: ↑Hottentot bread

• Hypernyms: ↑root

• Part Holonyms: ↑elephant's-foot, ↑tortoise plant, ↑Hottentot bread vine, ↑Hottentot's bread vine, ↑Dioscorea elephantipes

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noun

see hottentot bread

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1. elephant's-foot.

2. the edible rhizome of this plant.

[1725-35]

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Hottentot's bread noun

Elephant's-foot

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Main Entry: ↑Hottentot

Useful english dictionary. 2012.