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Hottentot's bread

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Hottentot's bread

 
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–noun
1. elephant's-foot.
2. the edible rhizome of this plant.
Origin:
1725–35
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el⋅e⋅phant's-foot

  [el-uh-fuhnts-foot]
–noun, plural -foots.
a climbing vine, Dioscorea elephantipes, of southern Africa, having a massive, edible, yamlike tuber.
Also called Hottentot's bread, tortoise plant.

Origin:
1810–20
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