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hottentot's bread

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Hottentot's bread

–noun
1. elephant's-foot.
2. the edible rhizome of this plant.

Origin:
1725–35

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.


Origin:
1810–20
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hottentot's bread

noun
thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot [syn: Hottentot bread
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