coconut meat

The white lining within the shell of a coconut; the endocarp of the coconut seed.

椰肉

the white lining within the shell of a coconut


prattie

Once I was in Ireland / Digging turf and pratties / And now I'm on a Yankee ship / Hauling on sheets and braces.

Haul Away Joe (sea shanty; Andrew Draskóy's version)

He was dressed in his best suit, looking well, his face brown from working in his potato patch. He grows five different varieties, still experimenting, trying to find a prattie that would resist the blight.


pyinkado

From Burmese ပျဉ်းကတိုး (pyany:ka.tui:).


regmacarp

/ˈɹɛɡməkɑːp/

/ˈɹɛɡməkɑɹp/

From Ancient Greek ῥῆγμα (rhêgma, “something broken or rent asunder; a breach, cleft, fracture”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”)) + English -carp (suffix meaning ‘part of a fruit or fruiting body’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to harvest; to pluck”)), modelled after schizocarp. The word was probably coined by the Scottish physician and botanist William Ramsay McNab (1844–1889): see the 1871 article from the journal Nature quoted below.

coinage

Taking the word Schizocarp as a type, I venture to suggest the term Achænocarp for the group of Achænes as used by Dr. [Alexander] Dickson, thus avoiding all confusion, and allowing the term Achæne to remain in its restricted sense. Regmacarp I would apply to the group of capsules, using the term capsule for one division of the group. […] The derivation of these terms at once explains their application. […] Regmacarp from regma, a rupture, in allusion to the dehiscence. […] In using these terms I would employ them in the following manner:— […] II. Dry Dehiscent Fruits. 3. Regmacarps. A. Follicle. Simple, dehisces by one suture. […]

1871 October 12, W[illiam] R[amsay] McNab, “Remarks on the Classification of Fruits”, in Nature: A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, volume IV, London, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 475, column 2:

The truth is, that it is impossible to find a classification of fruits which is founded on strictly scientific principles—the forms merging into each other; […] Accordingly, in the following classification, in which we have mainly followed Dr [Maxwell Tylden] Masters, all the less easily defined forms are omitted, and the list reduced as much as possible, without at all destroying its usefulness. […] monothalmic fruits. A. Ripe pericarp uniform. […] Fruits dehiscent.—II. Pods, or Regmacarps—viz., Follicle, Legume, Siliqua, Capsule, Pyxis.

1874, Robert Brown, “The Fruit”, in A Manual of Botany: Anatomical and Physiological: For the Use of Students, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, pages 482–483:

Dr. Master's [i.e., Maxwell T. Masters'] modification of [Alexander] Dickson's and [William Ramsay] McNab's classification of simple fruits, as to primary kinds, is into 1. Nuts, or Achænocarps, dry and indehiscent; 2. Pods, or Regmacarps, dry, dehiscent; 3. Stone-fruits, or Pyrenocarps, fleshy without, indurated within, indehiscent; 4. Berries, or Sarcocarps, fleshy throughout, indehiscent.

1879, Asa Gray, “The Fruit”, in The Botanical Text-book. Part I. Structural Botany or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. […], 6th edition, London: Macmillan and Company, →OCLC, section II (The Kinds of Fruit), paragraph 555, footnote 1, page 292:

(botany, obsolete, rare) A fruit which, when mature, splits open to release its seeds; a dehiscent fruit.


kentjur

Any of a number of flowering plants in the Zingiberaceae family, native to Asia, and having rhizomes used as spices.


white turmeric

Curcuma zedoaria
Curcuma zedoaria#Translingual

zedoary (Curcuma zedoaria), an herb with edible rhizomes.


chorogi

In general appearance, the plant is much like the Chorogi or Stachys Sieboldii which is sold as an esculent by the seedman, and a detailed report of which was made from this station two years ago

1892, Horticultural division, “A new edible plant—Stachys Floridana”, in Bulletin of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, volume 61, page 329:

However, few studies have examined the neuroprotective effects of S. sieboldii tuber extract (chorogi extract), and it remains unknown whether the extract can alleviate learning and memory dysfunction associated with vascular dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

2015, S. Harada, T. Tsujita, A. Ono, K. Miyagi, T. Mori, S. Tokuyama, “Stachys sieboldii (Labiatae, Chorogi) Protects against Learning and Memory Dysfunction Associated with Ischemic Brain Injury”, in Journal of Nutrition Science and Vitaminology, →DOI, page 167:

The Chinese artichoke or crosne, Stachys affinis or S. sieboldii, an herbaceous plant of the family Lamiaceae.


Jonagold

An apple cultivar, a cross between Golden Delicious and Jonathan.


stripleaf

tobacco that has been stripped of the stalks before packing


daily double

Other than this defect, the payoffs are remarkably similar; as it is, if your choice is between the daily double and the parlay, bet on the former!

1991, Peter Asch, Richard E. Quandt, Racetrack Betting: The Professor's Guide to Strategies, →ISBN, page 169:

(horse racing or dog racing) A bet on the first-place winners of two consecutive races.


Dirty Dozen

A team of twelve IBM employees, formed in 1980, who created the first IBM PC in 1981.

(Basketball) The United States' men's basketball team (which consists of twelve players) at the 1998 FIBA World Championship.

Saddam Hussein and eleven others who carried out his orders.

(cycling) A one-day road cycling race founded in 1983 (which originally featured twelve hills, but since 1988 has typically featured a baker's dozen of thirteen hills), held annually in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

(aviation) The twelve most common aircraft problems, resulting from human error, that may lead to accidents etc.

The twelve species of fruits and vegetables that are declared the most likely to be contaminated by pesticides over the last year


Oregon plum

Prunus subcordata
Prunus subcordata#Translingual


California plum

en-noun

California plum (plural California plums)


Sierra plum

A shrub or small tree native to northern California and southern Oregon, Prunus subcordata, sometimes grown for its edible fruit.


nettle-leaved horsemint

nettle-leaved horsemint (usually uncountable, plural nettle-leaved horsemints)

An aromatic herb of the western US in the mint family, Agastache urticifolia, used medicinally by the American Indians.


nettle-leaf horsemint

nettle-leaf horsemint (usually uncountable, plural nettle-leaf horsemints)

nettle-leaved horsemint
nettle-leaved horsemint#English

Alternative form of nettle-leaved horsemint


nettle-leaf giant hyssop

nettle-leaf giant hyssop (usually uncountable, plural nettle-leaf giant hyssops)

An aromatic herb of the western US in the mint family (Agastache urticifolia), used medicinally by the American Indians.


giant hyssop

giant hyssop (usually uncountable, plural giant hyssops)

Any plant in the genus Agastache, aromatic herbs in the mint family.


French parsley

Called French parsley by Europeans, chervil is a symbol of new life for them, because of its resemblance to myrrh given to baby Jesus.

[2006, Susheela Raghavan, Handbook of Spices, Seasonings, and Flavorings, 2nd edition, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 84:

Is it any wonder that a synonym for chervil is French parsley?

[2009, Thomas DeBaggio, Arthur O. Tucker, The Encyclopedia of Herbs […] , Timber Press, →ISBN, page 154:

Anthriscus cerefolium
Anthriscus cerefolium#Translingual


woodmarch

From Middle English wodemarch, wudemerch, from Old English wudemerċe, wudumerċe, from wude, wudu (“wood”) + merċe, mereċe (a type of aquatic plant), from Proto-Germanic *marikiz (“waterplant, celery, parsley”).

inh

Let the man who hath ill humours on his neck take halswort and woodmarch and wild chervil and strawberry plants and everthroat, and garclife, and ironhard gathered without use of any iron, and stitchwort, and knee holly and broad bishopwort and brownwort, […]

1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England:

(botany) An umbelliferous plant, a species of sanicle (Sanicula europaea).


scratch race

(horse racing) A catchweight horse race.


gmelina

The air is cool in this shade of whistling gmelina trees.

2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 63:

(botany) Any member of the genus Gmelina.


bearwort

Meum athamanticum
Meum athamanticum#Translingual

A perennial alpine plant, Meum athamanticum.


lumbayao

The wood from this tree, commercially sold as Philippine mahogany


whortle bush

/ˈwɜːtl̩bʊʃ/

The Red Bilberry, or whortle-bush, riseth up like the [Black], having sundry harder Leaves, like the Box-Tree Leaves, green and round pointed standing on the several Branches […]

1652, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physitian, London: Peter Cole, page 16:

With a short breath of wonder, and a long one of delight, Rose stopped, and sat down by a low whortle-bush, with a pink frill still adorning it.

1882, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, chapter 4, in Christowell: A Dartmoor Tale, volume 2, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 69:

My course ran along by the foot of the beautiful Quantock Hills, where heavy-wooded coombes are scattered over the broad heathery downs, deep with bracken and whortle-bushes.

1889, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 23, in Micah Clarke:

The bird feigned a broken wing, and Vassilli, falling into the trap, instead of shooting her at once, followed her as she dodged through the whortle bushes.

1915, Maud Doria Haviland, chapter 9, in A Summer on the Yenisei, London: Edward Arnold, page 193:

Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium, bearing fruit known as whortleberries.


blackcurrant

1993, R. D. Davidson, 19: The vegetation of Lough Neagh wetlands, R.B. Wood, R.V. Smith (editors), Lough Neagh: The Ecology of a Multipurpose Water Resource, Monographae Biologicae: Volume 69, page 487,
Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) and guelder rose (Viburnum opulus) are frequent but alder buckthorn (Frangula alnus) a common constituent of East Anglian carr is very rare.

Blackcurrant leaf has a diuretic action [11,12,14], therefore it should not be taken concurrently with diuretics indicated for cardiac or renal insufficiency except on medical advice.

2003, European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy, ESCOP Monographs: The Scientific Foundation for Herbal Medicinal Products, page 426:

On this first day I concentrated on bushes - gooseberry and blackcurrants for the bottom end borders, rhododendrons for the front inside the wall and a couple of hydrangeas in the spaces left in the monoblocking to the left of the front door.

2005, Bernard Stocks, The Teenage Pensioner, page 112:

A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.


Indian saffron

From being a spice from the Indian subcontinent that is similar to saffron.


weight for age

[H]e would merely have remarked on its elegant hocks and golden horn and suggested that she enter it weight for age at Flemington.

2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 243:

(horse racing) Handicapped according to the age of the racehorse competing (and certain other factors).


weight for age

"What did I say about Nightcap last week? Here he's won the Weight for Age at twelve to one."

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 140:


cheelam

en-noun

cheelam (countable and uncountable, plural cheelams)

(India) An earthen bowl in which tobacco is kept and smoked through its hollow neck.


chasteberry

Vitex agnus-castus
Vitex agnus-castus#Translingual


danshen

zh-m

丹參／丹参 (dānshēn)

traditional Chinese medicine
traditional Chinese medicine

The perennial sage Salvia miltiorrhiza, valued in traditional Chinese medicine for its roots.


turnip-rooted parsley

en-noun

turnip-rooted parsley (usually uncountable, plural turnip-rooted parsleys)


Hamburg parsley

Hamburg parsley (usually uncountable, plural Hamburg parsleys)


Italian parsley

Italian parsley (usually uncountable, plural Italian parsleys)

A flat-leafed type of parsley used in cooking and salads.


Nebbiolo

Nebbiolo (usually uncountable, plural Nebbiolos)

/ˌnɛbɪˈəʊləʊ/

Borrowed from Italian nebbiolo, from nebbia (“fog”), after the grapes' appearance.

A fine red wine made near Alba from these grapes.


root parsley

root parsley (usually uncountable, plural root parsleys)

It is divided, botanically, into two groups: leaf parsley (Petroselinum crispum ssp. crispum) and root parsley (Petroselinum crispum ssp. tuberosum, or P. crispum convar. radicosum).

2009, Nancy Arrowsmith, Essential Herbal Wisdom […] , Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN, page 193:

A type of parsley with a large edible root (Petroselinum crispum Radicosum Group or Petroselinum crispum ssp. tuberosum).


mitsuba

From Japanese 三つ葉 (mitsuba) from 三つ (mitsu, “3”) + 葉 (ha, “leaf”).

An East Asian herb grown, especially in Japan, for its flavorful leaves, Cryptotaenia japonica.


kiwi berry

the hardy kiwi, an edible fruit similar to the kiwifruit


hardy kiwi

A perennial vine native to China, Japan, Korea and Siberia; Actinidia arguta.


heritage tomato

heritage tomato (plural heritage tomatoes)


Longyan

In view of the successful results of the program for the establishment of owner-farmers that had been previously achieved at Lungyen, one of the seven hsien under the 7th Prefecture in Western Fukien Province, the 7th Prefectural Office wanted to implement a similar program in the other six hsien and submitted to JCRR, in January, 1949, a project for land reform and rural reconstruction.

[1954 October, Hui-sun Tang, “The Land Problem and Land Reform in Taiwan”, in Land Reform in Free China, Taipei: China Engraving & Printing Works, →OCLC, page 19:

Xinhua, the official news agency, said that nearly half the children who were tested last week in Longyan City in Fujian Province showed abnormally high levels of lead, which can cause developmental problems in children as well as a host of other ailments, including anemia, stomach pain and brain damage.

2009 September 27, Andrew Jacobs, “Chinese Tests Reveal Lead in Children Near a Plant”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2013-04-29, Asia Pacific:

A prefecture-level city in southwestern Fujian, China.


snap pea

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-snap pea.wav

Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual

A cultivar of pea, Pisum sativum, having an edible pod like the snow pea, but differing from the latter in that its pod is more rounded.


sot-weed

sot-weed (countable and uncountable, plural sot-weeds)

From sot (“a stupified, stupid, inebriated, addicted, or infatuated person”), and weed.

These Sot-weed Planters Crowd the Shoar [more recent explanatory foot-note] Sot-Weed, i. e. the sot making or inebriating weed; a name for tobacco, used at that time. A Sot-weed Factor, was a tobacco agent or supercargo.

1708, Ebenezer Cooke, The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse., "at the Raven in Pater-Noster-Row", London: D. Bragg:

The Sot-Weed Factor [title]

1960, John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, →OCLC, page 518:

the effects of smoking sotweed... Depressions would produce modest efforts to diversify the economy but as soon as tobacco prices rose again, planters returned to “sotweed making”.

2010, Henry Miller, “The Lure of Sotweed: Tobacco and Maryland History”, in Slackwater: Oral Folk History of Southern Maryland, volume 3:

John Rolfe toiled over his tobacco plants, spending four years perfecting the cultivation and curing of his “sot weed”

2018, Kate Livie, “The Roots of the “Sot Weed””, in The Star Democrat, retrieved 2018-05-19:


nangca

Pigafetta mentions, for example, finding in Cebu such food items as rice, millet, panicum, sorgo, ginger, bananas, oranges, lemons, sugar cane, garlic, honey, coconuts, nangcas, and gourds.

1954, Conrado O. Benitez, History of the Philippines: Economic, Social, Cultural, Political, page 39:


Datterini tomato

Datterini tomato (plural Datterini tomatoes)

Literally, “datelike tomato”. See Datterini.

A sweet, elongated variety of tomato produced mainly in Italy.


quarrenden

"Will 'ee have some?" said Martha Ann presently, holding out her apron filled with rosy quarrendens.


hogberry

Any of several plants or their berries, usually neglected by humans


ajmoda

Probably from Hindi अजमोद (ajmod) from Sanskrit अजमोद (ajamoda)

(India) The seeds of wild celery, used in Indian folk medicine.


Persian apple

Prunus persica
Prunus persica#Translingual


broccoli rape

broccoli rape (countable and uncountable, plural broccoli rapes)

(dated) Alternative form of broccoli rabe


broccoli raab

broccoli raab (countable and uncountable, plural broccoli raabs)

Seven Top Turnip is often sold on New York State markets as green sprouting broccoli; and is sometimes called Broccoli Raab.[…]It is rather distinct from other turnips and is grown for the vigorous green tops which are used as greens[…]It produces a very poor root and is grown exclusively for the tops.

1928 October, H. W. Schneck, “Commercial Varieties of Vegetables for New York State”, in Cornell Extension Bulletin, number 176, page 29:


broccoli rabe

broccoli rabe (countable and uncountable, plural broccoli rabes)

Ultimately from Italian broccoli di rapa (“sprouts or stalks of the turnip”).

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Profiled by Sarah Di Gregorio in The Village Voice, Fratelli's is famous for its broccoli rabe specialties.

2010, Anthony Di Renzo, Bitter Greens, page 96:

Broccoli rabe is a classic Italian bitter green and it's a favorite in our family.

2012, Claire Criscuolo, Welcome to Claire's, page 119:

All the baking is done in-house, from the impressive selections in the breadbasket, including a stuffed bread with cheese, salami and broccoli rabe, to the desserts, like the feathery-light flourless chocolate cake, paired with a caramel gelato and topped off with a crisp chocolate tuile.

2015 July 16, Joanne Starkey, “Restaurant Review: Scarpetta Beach in Montauk Offers Meals to Match the View”, in New York Times:


deadly carrot

Any of the genus Thapsia of poisonous plants in the family Apiaceae.


patchoi

(Trinidad and Tobago) Alternative form of bok choy


ndengu

Vigna radiata
Vigna radiata#Translingual

(Kenya) green gram (bean of Vigna radiata)


'mater

Shortening of a dialectal pronunciation of tomato (or the also-attested dialectal rendering termater) with intrusive rhotacism. Compare tater (“potato”).

'mater sandwich

(Southern US, Appalachia, informal) Tomato.


Chinese yam

en-noun

Chinese yam (countable and uncountable, plural Chinese yams)

Dioscorea polystachya
Dioscorea polystachya#Translingual

A cinnamon vine (Dioscorea polystachya),


hog plum

Any of several types of plants that produce plum-like fruit.

Certain species of Prunus, particularly Prunus angustifolia (Chickasaw plum), Prunus rivularis (wild-goose plum), and Prunus umbellata (Allegheny plum).

Prunus angustifolia
Prunus angustifolia#Translingual


hare's ear

From Middle English harys eere, haris heere, hares eres, equivalent to hare's + ear.

Any of various plants in the genus Bupleurum.


fool's watercress

Apium nodiflorum (synonym Helosciadium nodiflorum), a flowering plant native to western Europe, the leaves somewhat resembling those of watercress.


armadillo egg

Since they do not contain any egg, the name may have come from Scotch egg, another snack food that is wrapped in sausage meat.

(US, cooking) A jalapeño popper, especially when wrapped in bacon or sausage meat.


scarlet runner

In reference to its red flowers and climbing habit.

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual


Khorasan wheat

Khorasan wheat is another ancient wheat that probably evolved as a hybrid of other grasses. Its exact origins are unknown, but appear to be in the Middle East. Unlike other ancient wheats, however, the grain is not enclosed in a hull.

2015, Emma Borghesi, The Beans & Grains Bible, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

An ancient tetraploid species or subspecies of wheat (Triticum turanicum), historically cultivated in Central Asia.


salad greens

Leafy vegetables typically eaten raw, such as lettuce, rocket (arugula), etc.


Catherine pear

See, the Catherine pear, and the vergaloo, how rich, juicy, and delicious.

1822, Noah Webster, The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language, page 70:


sand cherry

Prunus pumila, a North American cherry in the rose family, growing in sandy locations.


pagoda flower

Clerodendrum paniculatum, native from Papua New Guinea to Taiwan to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Certain other species of Clerodendrum with similar flowers.


puriri

Vitex lucens, an evergreen tree endemic to New Zealand.


awara

Borrowed from Guyanese Creole English awara, from Lokono awara.

The food found in its stomach was the seed of the awarra, a species of palm (Aristocaryon spec?)

1841, Robert H[ermann] Schomburgk, “Banded Schizodon. Schizodon fasciatus, Agas.”, in William Jardine, editor, Fishes of Guiana. Part I (The Naturalist’s Library, Ichthyology; III), Edinburgh: W[illiam] H[ome] Lizars, […]; London: S. Highley, […], →OCLC, page 253:

The Ita palm supplies the drink called Belteerie; of the fruit of the Tooroo palm a drink resembling chocolate is made; the Awara palm also yields a drink; the Guava, Souari, and tamarind.

1857, J. O. Bagdon, “Vegetable Products”, in Guiana: Geographical and Historical. […], Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana: R. Short, →OCLC, pages 16–17:

Handsome bracelets and rings are carved out of the nut of the Awara palm (Astrocaryum Awara); it is black, very hard, and bears a high polish.

1871 September 1, “International Exhibition. The French Pictures.”, in The Art-Journal, volume X (New Series; volume XXXIII overall), London: Virtue & Co., →OCLC, page 220, column 1:

Oil of the awara palm. This palm is very common on the coast of French Guiana; the fruit grows to a fine bunch, and ripens and falls between February and April. It is one of the most useful of trees, for every particle of it is utilized.

1876 June, “France. Cayenne. Report by Consul Wooldridge on the Trade and Commerce of French Guiana for the Year 1875.”, in Reports from Her Majesty’s Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &c., of Their Consular Districts. Part IV. […] (Accounts and Papers; 34 (Commercial Reports—continued)), volume LXXV, London: Harrison and Sons, […], →OCLC, page 850, column 1:

The five principal palms of the British Guiana rivers are the trooly, the aeta, the cocorite, the manicole, and the awarra, and all these grow in the greatest profusion on the banks of the Berbice.

1885, The Gardeners’ Magazine, volume XXVIII, London: Gardeners’ Magazine Office, →OCLC, page 642:

Above Ahwiemah, and upwards until the sandy ridges in the neighbourhood of Youacourie creek are met with, the district is almost a continuous swamp, in which the prickly awarra palms (Astrocaryum) luxuriate and in some places completely line the riverside.

1890 June, [J. J. Quelch], “On the Upper Berbice River”, in J. J. Quelch, editor, Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume IV (New Series), part I, Demerara: J. Thomson, […]; London: E[dward] Stanford, […], →OCLC, page 317:

An Amerindian informant living in the area stated that it fed on fruits of the Awarra Palm Astrocaryum tucumoides and the Cuyuru Palm A. tucuma.

1976 June 18, E. McLoughlin, P. J. K. Burton, “Notes on the Hawk-headed Parrot Deroptyus accipitrinus”, in J. F. Monk, editor, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, volume 96, number 2, London: British Ornithologists’ Club, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69:

At dawn the beautiful wife asked Bási Kodjó to go off to the forest with her to collect awara palm seeds. [...] Bási Kodjó climbed the awara tree and began picking fruit. Suddenly the woman turned back into her natural form, a Bush Cow, and called out to her relatives. [...] Bási Kodjó had turned himself into a tiny awara palm thorn and hidden by sticking himself into a leaf.

1991, Richard Price, Sally Price, “Introduction: Collective Fabulation”, in Two Evenings in Saramaka, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 18:

This owl nests mostly in cavities in trees. On 23 June 2006, a nest was discovered at Awala-Yalimapo [...]. The nest cavity was situated on top of a dead beheaded awara palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare. The palm tree with a height of c. 5 m and a diameter of c. 15 cm stood in the middle of a small group of bushes, low trees and awara palms next to the parking of the primary school.

2017, Olivier Claessens, Nyls de Pracontal, Johan Ingels, “The Owls of French Guiana”, in Paula L. Enríquez, editor, Neotropical Owls: Diversity and Conservation, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 426:

(Guyana, chiefly attributively) The palm tree Astrocaryum vulgare which is native to the Amazon Rainforest region.


dong quai

Angelica sinensis
Angelica sinensis#Translingual

Angelica sinensis, a herb native to China, used in traditional Chinese medicine.

當歸

herb used in traditional Chinese medicine


China root

China root (countable and uncountable, plural China roots)

An East Asian liana of species Smilax china.


robin-run-in-the-hedge

Glechoma hederacea
Glechoma hederacea#Translingual


devil's herb

From devil + herb. From the suffering of people with the gene OR6A2, who are more sensitive to aldehydes, found in the herb, which impart an unpleasant medicinal taste.

(slang) The herb form of cilantro/coriander.


Korean melon

Korean melon (countable and uncountable, plural Korean melons)

A type of muskmelon (Cucumis melo), cultivated in East Asia for their edible fruit.


chadon beni

Borrowed from French chardon béni (“blessed thistle”): chardon (“thistle”) (ultimately from Latin carduus (“wild thistle; artichoke”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to rub, scrape, scratch”)) + béni (past participle of bénir (“to bless”), ultimately from Late Latin benedīcō (“to bless, praise”), from bene (“well”) and dīcō (“speak”)).

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The people of Trinidad and Tobago also love their shark and bake which they spice with a sauce made from chadon beni (one of the most versatile herbs that is used to spice meats or make a flavoured pepper sauce).

1997, Caricomview: A Monthly Newsletter of the Caricom Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana: Communications Unit, Caricom Secretariat, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:

If you go to Maracas Bay, have shark-and-bake, a spicy fried bread sandwich of fried shark with a variety of sauces such as tamarind, garlic, chadon beni.

1999, Sarah Cameron, Ben Box, editors, Caribbean Islands Handbook 2000: With the Bahamas, 11th edition, Bath, Somerset: Footprint Handbooks, →ISBN, page 970:

This herb is referred to as false cilantro because it resembles and is related to cilantro. It is also known as recao, long coriander, saw-tooth coriander, culantro, or shadow beni.

2005, Lynn Marie Houston, “Major Foods and Ingredients”, in Ken Albala, editor, Food Culture in the Caribbean (Food Culture around the World), Westport, Conn., London: Greenwood Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 35:

Over the 10 week period the students were guided in the development of investment profiles for producing 6 products and or commodities: dehydrated hot peppers; dasheen leaves; pasteurized milk (using small scale equipment); sweet corn; Chadon Beni; and Red tilapia.

2006 March, “Technical Cooperation Results – 2005”, in The Contribution of IICA to the Development of Agriculture and Rural Communities in Trinidad and Tobago: Annual Report 2005, Port of Spain, Trinidad: IICA [Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture] Office in Trinidad & Tobago, section 5.5 (Developing Human Capital), page 16, column 2:

Grilled corn with shadon beni butter […] Inspired by a popular Trinidadian herb, I've come up with a more interesting topping: shadon beni butter. […] But don't despair if you can't find shadon beni: cilantro makes an equally delicious butter. By the way, you can use shadon beni butter as a great topping for other simply grilled vegetables and seafood.

2008 April, Steven Raichlen, “Vegetables: Greens Meet Grill”, in The Barbeque! Bible, New York, N.Y.: Workman Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 404, column 2:

The air was spiced with chadon beni and wild thyme, his favourite perfume.

2009, Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, published 2011, →ISBN:

Every week I buy my herbs—cive (as it's spelled here) and thyme (sold separately), parsley and chadon beni (a close relative of cilantro)^([sic – meaning culantro])—from the same Rastafarian farmer, who always welcomes me, though this market swims with shoppers, and commerce generally gets in the way of idle chat.

2009, Ann Vanderhoof, “Curry Tabanca: Trinidad”, in The Spice Necklace: A Food-lover’s Caribbean Adventure, Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 190:

This thick sultry stew [callaloo] is simmered from okra, chili peppers, coconut milk, chadon bene, garlic, onion, crab, tubers (including dasheen, whose leaves, resembling a slightly bitter spinach, are also called callaloo), and sometimes various meats.

2010, “Eating and Drinking Well in Trinidad and Tobago”, in Douglas Stallings, Eric Wechter, editors, Fodor’s Trinidad & Tobago, New York, N.Y.: Fodor’s Travel, →ISBN:

Chinese Trinidadian Chicken with Mango Chutney […] [Winnie] Lee Lum finishes the dish with chopped shandon beni leaves, a local herb that tastes like cilantro.

2010, Grace Young, “Poultry and Egg Recipes”, in Stir Frying to the Sky’s Edge: The Ultimate Guide to Mastery with Authentic Recipes and Stories, New York, N.Y., London: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 116, column 1:

Shado beni is similar to cilantro but has a stronger flavor. Look for it in ethnic grocery stores that feature Hispanic or West Indian foods. If not found, it is not a problem—just substitute with cilantro (add a little extra cilantro if you want the stronger flavor you would have gotten with the shado beni).

2011, John Cavazos, Ann Marie Cavazos, “Main Courses and Cooked Sides”, in The Daniel Fast Made Delicious, Lake Mary, Fla.: Siloam, →ISBN, section I (Healthy Eating on the Daniel Fast), page 35:

Eryngium foetidum
Eryngium foetidum#Translingual

(Caribbean) Culantro (Eryngium foetidum), a tropical herb whose leaves are used medicinally and in Caribbean cuisine.


peewah

Borrowed from Trinidadian Creole English peewa, peewah, from Spanish pijguao (Latin America), possibly from Quechua [Term?]. The English word is cognate with Spanish pifá, pivá (Panama), pijuayo (Peru).

The Pewa or Peach palm (Guilielma speciosa) was introduced from Trinidad, and seedlings raised for distribution. The fruits when boiled in water with salt are appreciated as a food.

1910, Department of Agriculture, Legislative Council, Trinidad and Tobago, [Council Paper], Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Government Printer, →OCLC, page 16:

This Guilielma [the peach palm or pejibaye (Guilielma gasipaes)] is prized in Trinidad, as well as elsewhere, for its edible fruits; by the natives I have heard it called piliwa and piwa.

[1947 December 27, L[iberty] H[yde] Bailey, Indigenous Palms of Trinidad and Tobago (Gentes Herbarum: Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants), volume VII, fascicle IV, Ithaca, N.Y.: Bailey Hortorium of The New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, →OCLC, page 353:

Nonconventional sources with development potential include: [...] wild plants such as gru gru, pewa (peach nut), many weeds and, possibly, the seeds of seaside grapes, fat pork, etc.

1984, Jeffrey W. Dellimore, Judy A. Whitehead, Secondary Agrobased Industries: ECCM and Barbados (Caribbean Technology Policy Studies Project; 90), Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, →OCLC, page 79:

Bactris gasipaes
Bactris gasipaes#Translingual

A peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), a South American palm tree.


crestmarine

From French christe-marine, influenced by crest, as if a reference to its coastal habitat.


semencine

Probably from Latin semen + ? (cf. original taxonomic name Artemisia cina), so meaning something like "cina seed"


elaichi

en-noun

elaichi (countable and uncountable, plural elaichis)

From Hindustani الائچی / इलायची (ilāycī).


snake bean

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis#Translingual

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis, a widely cultivated edible legume.


summer savory

Satureja hortensis
Satureja hortensis#Translingual


nutrush

Any of the genus Scleria of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.


sweet marjoram

Origanum majorana
Origanum majorana#Translingual

Origanum majorana, a fragrant species of marjoram.


Duras

Uncertain. There is no known connection with the Côtes de Duras east of Bordeaux.

A traditional French red wine grape mostly grown around the river Tarn, northeast of Toulouse.


scarlet eggplant

scarlet eggplant (plural scarlet eggplants)

Solanum aethiopicum, a species of fruiting plant, whose green fruit is known as gilo or garden egg.


gilo

Borrowed from Portuguese giló, jiló, from Kimbundu njilu.

Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum)


agastache

Coined by John Clayton from Ancient Greek ἄγαν (ágan, “very much”) + Ancient Greek στάχυς (stákhus, “ear of grain”)

der

A plant of genus Agastache, a giant hyssop.


burnet saxifrage

The plant's leaves resemble those of a burnet, and it has a diuretic effect similar to saxifrage; however, it is neither a burnet nor a saxifrage.

Pimpinella saxifraga
Pimpinella saxifraga#Translingual

Pimpinella saxifraga, a plant of the family Apiaceae.


Indian berry

Anamirta cocculus, a climbing plant of India and southeast Asia.


corn silk

Alternative form of cornsilk (a colour of yellow that is like that of these fibres)


sugar snap pea

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-sugar snap pea.wav


cornfest

Greater sandhill cranes take wing after a cornfest near the Rio Grande.

1982, America's Wildlife Sampler, page 138:

The cornfests later attracted as many as two hundred families, who came on the day the corn ripened to perfection.

1996, William P. Everts, Stockwell of Minneapolis: A Pioneer of Social and Political Conscience:

(US) A festival celebrating the harvesting of a corn crop.


chia seed

An edible seed of Salvia hispanica, a flowering plant in the mint family native to Central America, or of the related Salvia columbariae of southwestern United States and Mexico.


rock samphire

en-noun

rock samphire (countable and uncountable, plural rock samphires)

Crithmum maritimum
Crithmum maritimum#Translingual

Crithmum maritimum (sea fennel), native to temperate seacoasts of Europe.


split pea

(botany, cooking) An agricultural or culinary preparation consisting of the dried, peeled, and split seeds of Pisum sativum, the pea.

poolikud herned

dried, peeled, and split seeds of the pea


winter savory

winter savory (usually uncountable, plural winter savories)

A perennial herb, Satureja montana, used in cooking as a substitute for the annual summer savory.


water-shield

Brasenia schreberi
Wikispecies:Brasenia schreberi

An aquatic herbaceous flowering plant widely distributed in North America, the West Indies, northern South America, East Asia, Australia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of Africa (Brasenia schreberi).


stakeswinner

(horse racing) A winner of a stakes race


balm of Gilead

A rare perfume produced in Gilead and used medicinally, mentioned in the Bible. It is sometimes thought to have come from the plant Commiphora gileadensis, and sometimes from a terebinth tree in the genus Pistacia.


stakeswinning

(horse racing) Having won a stakes race.


sweet horsemint

(US) The common dittany, Cunila origanoides.


guinea grains

guinea grains pl (normally plural, singular guinea grain)

From its native range in West Africa, formerly generally known as Guinea, q.v.

The tooth is plugged with a pounded mixture of the root of the lime tree and Guinea grains.

1904, Journal of the African Society, number 3, page 374:

grains of paradise
grains of paradise#English


winter book

(horse racing) A bookmaker's guide to the likely performance of racehorses in the upcoming season.


ewedu

Corchorus olitorius
Corchorus olitorius#Translingual

(Nigeria) The jute mallow, Corchorus olitorius.

(Nigeria) A Yoruba soup made from this vegetable.


rattlesnake root

rattlesnake root (countable and uncountable, plural rattlesnake roots)

(botany) A plant of the genus Prenanthes.


urad dal

From Hindi उड़द दाल (uṛad dāl); see urad + dal.

(India, cooking) A bean (Vigna mungo) or a dish made from it.


gully bean

So called because the bushes grow wild, especially in gullies, and the bean-like fruits are used to season certain foods.

Preserves here featured a number of products in brine, namely gully beans, corn, carrot and breadfruit. Other exhibits here included pineapple, cucumber, pickle, castor oil, banana, vinegar, pepper pot soup in bottles.

They go up into the hills to pick gully beans, up into deep green spicy woods with the sun hot in dappled patches on the men's glistening backs, with strange birds screeching and goats neighing loudly in the afternoon air.

2008, Jane Covernton, Cutlass Time, →ISBN, page 187:

“Steam fish, bananas, dumplings, gully beans and okra.” “You cooked that kind of food on a Sunday? Was I so fast asleep that you couldn't wake me up and ask me what I wanted? Gully beans, what's that?” “Susumber, it's good to cook with ...”

2016, Austin Mitchell, Uptown Lovers, →ISBN:

A fruit of a wild eggplant or susumber plant (Solanum torvum).


pea eggplant

The pea eggplants impart a delicious bitterness to the relish. Occasionally these eggplants are grilled before being added, altering their taste and making them wonderfully nutty.

2002, David Thompson, Thai Food, Random House Digital, Inc., →ISBN, page 195:

Fruits of the pea eggplant are mostly collected from the wild. In cultivation some care is required, [...] but pea eggplant is a very sturdy crop that grows without much care.

2004, G. J. H. Grubben, Vegetables, PROTA, →ISBN, page 503:

The wild eggplant, Solanum torvum, or its fruit (susumber or turkey berries).


Mexican bush sage

Mexican bush sage (usually uncountable, plural Mexican bush sages)

A shrubby sage native to central and eastern Mexico, Salvia leucantha, grown in subtropical, dry climates for its ornamental flower stems covered in bright blue or purple velvety hairs, and for its relative drought tolerance.


white sage

white sage (usually uncountable, plural white sages)

Salvia apiana, a sage native to southern California and neighboring Baja California west of the desert, an important nectar source for sage honey.


wild eggplant

It feeds normally on the so called wild eggplant, Solanum torvum, and it is on this plant that it is able to survive during the intervals between crops, [...]

1917, R. T. Cotton, “The eggplant Lace-Bug in Porto Rico”, in Economic Entomology: Pamphlets, page 23:

the characteristic Verticillium fungus of eggplants being obtained from the following: Bonny Best tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum Mill.), [...] Solanum carolinense L., S. rostratum Dunal., S. integrifolium Poir., S. torvum (wild eggplant from Porto Rico), S. eleagnifolium Cav., S. marginatum Linn., and S. pyraconthum Jacq.

1918, I. C. Jagger, V. B. Stewart, “Some Verticillium Diseases”, in Phytopathology, page 18:

Incidentally, it might be well also to destroy all wild eggplants, Solanum torvum, near commercial plantings, for numerous other insect pests, as well as the lacewing bug, occur on both hosts.

1933, George Norton Wolcott, An Economic Entomology of the West Indies:

[…]
2 cups coconut milk
1/4 cup small to medium-size prawns, shelled
Salt
1 cup wild eggplant (terung pipit or Solanum torvum)
2 red chillies
1/2 cup grated coconut, roasted
[…]

2009, Coconut recipes from around the world, Bioversity International, →ISBN, page 225:

A wild eggplant (Solanum torvum) derived StoVe1 gene resulted in enhanced resistance to Verticillium dahliae infection (Liu et al., 2012).

2016, Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Iqrar Ahmad Khan, Debmalya Barh, Applied Molecular Biotechnology: The Next Generation of Genetic Engineering, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 70:

Solanum torvum, the turkey berry bush, or its edible fruit.


susumber

susumber (countable and uncountable, plural susumbers)

Perhaps related to Ewe súsruba and/or sū́sùmɛ, sū́sumɛ (an aromatic soup-plant, sometimes identified as Solanum torvum or another Solanum) or Twi Akan nsúsŭaa (a kind of pot-herb; related to ǹsú (“water”)?) + mma, mbá (“offspring, young (plants, etc)”).

The reaction of all these was alkaline from ammonia. The stomach contained a good many susumber berries, which were readily recognised by their seeds accompanying them. The mucous coat of the stomach was in its natural condition.

1868, Edinburgh Medical Journal, page 400:

[...], several cases are recorded by Dr. Manners, of Jamaica, W.I., of poisoning by the susumber berries, of which one proved fatal, and several others recovered, probably in consequence of the early evacuation of the stomach ...

1881, George Bacon Wood, Franklin Bache, The Dispensatory of the United States of America, page 383:

A small thorny bush, susumber grows in Jamaica both wild and in cultivation. It is also known as "gully bean" because of its typical sites of growth. It bears in abundance a bitter berry about one centimetre in diameter ...

2008, B. W. Higman, Jamaican Food: History, Biology, Culture, University of West Indies Press:

Five family members in New York City suffered gastrointestinal distress, dizziness, slurred speech, cranial nerve deficits, and ataxia the next morning after consumption of an evening meal containing susumber berries.

2013, T. K. Lim, Edible Medicinal And Non-Medicinal Plants: Volume 6, Fruits, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 438:

(usually uncountable) Solanum torvum, a bushy, spiny perennial plant: the wild eggplant.


perovskia

(botany) Any of the genus Perovskia of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae.


leather-coat

An apple with a rough rind, the Golden Russet.


twincrest onion

twincrest onion (plural twincrest onions)

Allium bisceptrum
Allium bisceptrum#Translingual

A wild herb with an onion-like flavor, Allium bisceptrum, native to high elevations in the western US


wild onion

Coordinate term: wild garlic

(botany) Any of a large number of noncultivated plants that smell similar to, or otherwise resemble, onions, especially in the genus Allium.


stanmarch

From Middle English stanmarche, from Old English stānmerċe, compound of stān (“stone”) + merċe (“smallage”).

The A. S. name [mersc] passed into Old Eng. and survived to Turner’s time ; but now occurs only in Stanmarch, which has been transferred from the Parsley to the allied Alexanders, or Horse-parsley (Smyrnium Olusatrum, L.) a plant formerly much cultivated for salads.

1877 January 11, Thomas Comber, “The etymology of plant names, Part II. Kitchen-vegetables and salad-plants”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, page 62:

The herb was also known as Stanmarch. It grows on waste places by rivers near the sea, having been formerly cultivated like celery, which has now supplanted it.

1897, William Thomas Fernie, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure, Lettuce, page 313:

(archaic) Smyrnium olusatrum, alexanders, horse parsley, an herb of the umbellifer family.


maloga bean

[T]he silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland, decorated for Christmas with bouquets of red mistletoe flowers and the sleepy olive vines of wild medicine and maloga beans.

2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 294:

(Australia) The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.


rattlesnake weed

Any of several plants used in folk medicine to treat snakebites.


Japanese pumpkin

Japanese pumpkin (plural Japanese pumpkins)


brightleaf

From bright + leaf: the leaves turn yellow when heated.

A variety of tobacco that grows well on infertile land.


dokha

From Arabic دَوْخَة (dawḵa, “dizziness”), in reference to the effects of its high nicotine content.

A form of uncured, minimally processed tobacco from the Middle East.


Aztec tobacco

Nicotiana rustica
Nicotiana rustica#Translingual


Turkish tobacco

Oriental tobacco
Oriental tobacco#English


Oriental tobacco

Nicotiana tabacum
Nicotiana tabacum#Translingual

A sun-cured, highly aromatic, small-leafed variety of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) grown in Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Lebanon, and the Republic of Macedonia.


wild tobacco

a very strong tobacco, of species Nicotiana rustica.


break one's maiden

en-verb

break one's maiden (third-person singular simple present breaks one's maiden, present participle breaking one's maiden, simple past broke one's maiden, past participle broken one's maiden)

breaks one's maiden (present singular third-person)
breaking one's maiden (participle present)
broke one's maiden (past)
broken one's maiden (participle past)

(horse racing) Of a racehorse or jockey: to achieve victory in a race for the first time.


Pink Lady

en-noun

Pink Lady (countable and uncountable, plural Pink Ladies)

(historical, military, uncountable) A denaturant mixture added to discourage World War II-era US Navy submariners from drinking "torpedo juice".


beech nut

The edible nut of the beech tree, Fagus.


rabbiteye

A type of blueberry (Vaccinium virgatum)


on the rails

(horse racing) Racing toward the inside, near the fence that bounds the track.


okoume

Borrowed from certain Gabonese Bantu (Cf. Myene okumé, Viya okumé, Tsogo okumé) via French okoumé.

Aucoumea klaineana, an African hardwood.


dippy eggs

dippy eggs pl (normally plural, singular dippy egg)

(UK, Pennsylvania) Eggs cooked over easy or soft-boiled.


pulasan

The fruit of the tropical tree Nephelium ramboutan-ake (syn. N. mutabile)


barrier rogue

(Australia, horse racing) A racehorse that is difficult to control when being put into the starting gates.


curly kale

curly kale (countable and uncountable, plural curly kales)

The most common form of kale, with crinkly rather than smooth leaves.


rice bean

Vigna umbellata
Vigna umbellata#Translingual

A bean plant of species Vigna umbellata, a food and fodder crop of Asia.


khella

Visnaga daucoides
Visnaga daucoides#Translingual

The plant Visnaga daucoides (syn. Ammi visnaga).


running rail

(horse racing) A fence which marks the inside edge of a racecourse track.


shellflower

A floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratiotes, with green rosettes of leaves and inconspicuous flowers.

A plant in the mint family grown for its distinctive circular green calyxes.


Stinking Bishop

Stinking Bishop (countable and uncountable, plural Stinking Bishops)

A reference to Frederick (or Percy) Bishop, who owned Moorcroft Farm in the early 1800s and was presumably the cultivar's breeder; he is said to have had an ugly temperament.

Stinking Bishop cheese
Stinking Bishop pear

(countable) A pear of a variety bred near Dymock in Gloucestershire, England, primarily for perry.

(countable, uncountable) A washed-rind cheese made from the milk of Gloucester cattle and immersed in perry made from Stinking Bishop pears.


garlion

The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber

1936, The Reader's Digest, volume 29, page 99:

Garlions are being offered on the market as a compromise cross between garlic and onions for those who cannot quite make up their minds to take garlic to their bosom.

1937, Consumers' Guide, volume 4, page 12:

Garlion isn't what the growers were looking for, but it has made a hit with customers at Dean & DeLuca, a New York specialty food store that sells the bulbs for $2.25 to $2.95 a pound.

(obsolete, very rare) A hybrid vegetable resulting from a cross between garlic and onion.


sea parsnip

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Echinophora.


devil's walking stick

devil's walking stick (plural devil's walking sticks)

Aralia spinosa
Aralia spinosa#Translingual

Aralia spinosa, a woody plant native to eastern North America.


mahleb

From Arabic مَحْلَب (maḥlab, “mahaleb cherry”), from حَلَبَ (ḥalaba, “to milk”).

der

What makes them [(kahke)] unique is the fragrant mahleb (also spelled mahlab or mahaleb)—a spice ground from wild cherry kernels, with a flavor reminiscent of fresh cherries—elusive, but fruity and very pleasant.

2010, Richard Sax, Classic Home Desserts: A Treasury of Heirloom and Contemporary Recipes, page 287:

Prunus mahaleb
Prunus mahaleb#Translingual

A Middle Eastern spice derived from the pit of the mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb)


Magellan barberry

en-noun

Magellan barberry (plural Magellan barberries)

The shrub Berberis microphylla and its edible berry, native to southern Chile


sea wormwood

Artemisia maritima, a European wormwood.


over hard

(US) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on both sides all the way through, with the yolk intact.


black gram

black gram (usually uncountable, plural black grams)

A bean from the seed of Vigna mungo, native to the Indian subcontinent.


winetree

From Middle English wintre, variant of vyne-tre, from Old English wīntrēow, from Proto-West Germanic *wīnatreu, from Proto-Germanic *wīnatrewą, equivalent to wine + tree.

The third was clad as though she were wading the wheat-field to the waist, and above was wrapped in the leaves and bunches of the wine-tree.

1890, William Morris, The Roots of the Mountains:

They grow in springtime on the bottom part of the winetrees and has^([sic]) to be cut in order to get better quality and quantity of wine.

1900, Andre Arnold, Lecture Notes in Computer Science:

The prince who bought the winetrees, who bestowed priceless gifts—I pity Mumha, which he has left to go into the high tomb of Oirbhealach.

Perhaps apachiras.....etc., were certain groups of trees in the vineyard or some standard of selling the winetrees.

1954, Journal of the Oriental Institute, volume 4, page 216:

One of his followers, a southerner,—sudrmadr, or German, as he is assumed to have been,—having wandered, he reported on his return the discovery of wine-trees and grapes; and hence the name of Vineland, given to the locality.

1981, Sir Daniel Wilson, The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies:

the bats are turning
sated from the winetree
and flap drunkenly homeward […]

1997, Merlie M. Alunan, Amina Among the Angels, page 82:


meadow clary

A tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands, Salvia pratensis.


desert lavender

desert lavender (plural desert lavenders)

(US) A fragrant shrub with bluish flowers, Hyptis emoryi or Condea emoryi, native to the deserts of southwestern North America.


bells of Ireland

bells of Ireland (plural bells of Ireland)

A plant in the mint family grown for its distinctive green cup-like circular calyxes, Moluccella laevis


woolly bluecurls

woolly bluecurls (plural woolly bluecurls)

(US) A fragrant and drought-tolerant shrub in the mint family native to southern California and neighboring Mexico (Trichostema lanatum), which is grown for its striking woolly inflorescences.


wood sage

An herb in the mint family, Teucrium scorodonia.


obedient plant

A flowering plant in the mint family, Physostegia virginiana, native to eastern North America and known for the way that individual flowers stay in the position they're moved to when pushed to one side or the other.


American pennyroyal

American pennyroyal (plural American pennyroyals)

A pennyroyal-scented herb of eastern North America, Hedeoma pulegioides.


Russian sage

A shrub related to sage, Salvia yangii (syn. Perovskia atriplicifolia).


cat thyme

cat thyme (usually uncountable, plural cat thymes)

A low-growing herb, Teucrium marum, related to germander, which has a pungent scent that causes sneezing, but is attractive to cats.


mandarinquat

Citrus reticulata
Citrus reticulata#Translingual

A citrus tree, a cross between a mandarin and a kumquat, Citrus japonica × Citrus reticulata.


Meyer lemon

Named after American explorer Frank Nicholas Meyer (1875–1918).

named-after

Mr. Farzan’s narrow backyard in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood is a lush, if slightly chaotic, oasis. There are Fuji apples, Meyer lemons, figs, peonies and avocados — although that’s far from a complete census of all that grows there.

2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A citrus tree native to China, a cross between a citron and a mandarin/pomelo hybrid, Citrus × meyeri.


sour corn

sour (“tart”) + corn, possibly influenced by the first element of German saure Bohnen (literally “sour beans”) and Sauerkraut (“sauerkraut”).

cog

"I always thought that sour corn was the European tradition of sour cabbage brought over and applied to local ingredients," explains April. But after talking to a Cherokee folklorist, she came to understand "that sour corn was already a Native American tradition that Europeans raised on sour cabbage had a taste for."

2012, Sandor Ellix Katz, The Art of Fermentation: An In-depth Exploration of Essential Concepts, page 215:

Appalachian Sour Corn […] Saure Bohnen translates to “sourbeans” and is a traditional German dish. […] [S]ettlers from the Palatinate region who brought the practice to Appalachia were fermenting green beans in large crocks to be consumed through the winter. Think sauerkraut, only with green beans. And since that method is so adaptable, they quickly adapted it to fresh corn. […] The sugar and starch give sour corn a rounder, fuller presence in the mouth, […]

2016, Ronni Lundy, Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 118:

Sour corn could always be found in one of those mysterious crocks that sat in the dark and musky basement at my grandma's house.

2019, Sean Brock, South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations, page 272:

Southern United States
Southern United States

Lactofermented pickled corn, a dish eaten in the Southern United States, especially in Appalachia.


hummingbird sage

en-noun

hummingbird sage (plural hummingbird sages)

(California) The pitcher sage, Salvia spathacea, a fragrant sage native to California, with large red flowers much loved by hummingbirds.


pitcher sage

(California) A sage with large red, pitcher-shaped flowers, Salvia spathacea, native to California and grown there for its fragrance and its tolerance of both drought and shade.

(California) Any plant of the genus Lepechinia in the mint family, several of which are native to southern California and also grown there for fragrance, shade tolerance and drought tolerance


Cleveland sage

Cleveland sage (countable and uncountable, plural Cleveland sages)

(California) A drought-tolerant, sweetly fragrant sage (Salvia clevelandii) native to the Cleveland National Forest in southernmost California and to neighboring Baja California in Mexico.


rose sage

(US) A sage with showy rose-colored bracts and purple flowers native to desert mountains in southern California, Arizona, and Nevada, Salvia pachyphylla.


anise hyssop

A North American anise-scented herb in the mint family, Agastache foeniculum, grown for its fragrance, flowers, and for herb tea.


carpet bugle

Spreading ground covers for shady areas include dead nettles (Lamium) and carpet bugles (Ajuga), with attractively variegated leaves.

2021, Allan Haschick, Gardening in the Shade in South Africa:


pellamountain

Moreover nature's liberal hand decketh many of the sea cliffs with wild hyssop, sage, pellamountain, marjoram, rosemary, and suchlike well-savouring herbs.

1953, Richard Carew, Frank Ernest Halliday, John Norden, The survey of Cornwall &c, page 101:

Since he had known her, Metty always drank pellamountain tea in the early morning.

Thymus serpyllum
Thymus serpyllum#Translingual


eggwich

Stop in the morning for espresso and the pita eggwich (scrambled eggs, peppers, onions and diced tomatoes with provolone).

2000, Nancy Woodworth, Richard Woodworth, Getaways for Gourmets in the Northeast, page 266:

In Stewart's, waiting for his bagel to toast, Anthony launched into some abbreviated Grunt and Grumble with the other men picking up coffee and eggwiches.

2007, Jon Katz, Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm, page 119:

John butted a cigarette in the ashtray, got out of the car with his twenty-four-ounce coffee and sausage eggwich.

2018, Liam Sweeny, Street Whispers, unnumbered page:

A sandwich with an egg filling or egg patty.


eggel

Ron Allen and his wife, Libby, were enjoying their favorite breakfast, the eggel, an egg on bagel.

2015 August 16, E. B. Furgurson III, “Chick and Ruth's Delly: After half a century, it's still about family”, in Capital Gazette:

Try out the combo meals or even the eggels.

2018 March 2, Anastasia Carter, Eve Gross, “Best Restaurants In The 419”, in The Student Prints, Sylvania Northview High School, page 14:

Our whole menu is offered all day for those who want a lunch sandwich in the morning or an eggel in the afternoon.

2018, “No. 1 Sandwich Shop...AGAIN!!”, in Minot Daily News Readers' Choice 2018, page 13:


female ginseng

Angelica sinensis
Angelica sinensis#Translingual


Alaskan ginseng

Synonym of devil's club (“the plant Oplopanax horridus”)


rush nut

Cyperus esculentus
Cyperus esculentus#Translingual

The plant Cyperus esculentus, having edible tubers.


small nightshade

small nightshade (plural small nightshades)


silverleaf nightshade

silverleaf nightshade (plural silverleaf nightshades)


yellow nightshade

yellow nightshade (plural yellow nightshades)

Solanum villosum
Solanum villosum#Translingual


red nightshade

Phytolacca americana
Phytolacca americana#Translingual

A plant of species Phytolacca americana syn. Phytolacca decandra


woolly nightshade

woolly nightshade (plural woolly nightshades)

(especially New Zealand) Solanum mauritianum, a pest plant native to South America.


hairy nightshade

hairy nightshade (plural hairy nightshades)


buffalobur nightshade

buffalobur nightshade (plural buffalobur nightshades)


green nightshade

green nightshade (plural green nightshades)


buffaloburr nightshade

buffaloburr nightshade (plural buffaloburr nightshades)

buffalobur nightshade
buffalobur nightshade#English

Alternative form of buffalobur nightshade


tall nightshade

tall nightshade (plural tall nightshades)


buffalo-bur nightshade

buffalo-bur nightshade (plural buffalo-bur nightshades)


buffalobur

An herb native to most of the US and to northern Mexico, of species Solanum rostratum


Bambara nut

Bambara groundnut
Bambara groundnut#English


five finger

five finger (countable and uncountable, plural five fingers)

Pseudopanax arboreus, a New Zealand tree with compound leaves with five to seven 'fingers' and thick, leathery leaves with large teeth. A small, many-branched, round-headed tree with thick, brittle, spreading branches.


pepino melon

A South American plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for its melon-like fruit, Solanum muricatum.


black radish

A root vegetable of the family Brassicaceae cultivated for its edible root that has a tough black or dull brown skin and white flesh, Raphanus sativus var. niger


kadarka

From Hungarian kadarka, from Serbo-Croatian kadarka. Compare Romanian cadarcă.

A dark-skinned variety of grape grown primarily in Hungary.


urfa biber

/ˈɜːfə ˌbibə/

/ˈʊəfə ˌbibɛə/

/ˈʊɹfə ˌbibɛɹ/

From Turkish Urfa biber, from Urfa + biber (“pepper”).

Urfa biber is uniquely delicious—it has a fruity, roasted flavor—and worth seeking out at specialty spice merchants.

2014 April 15, Lucy Vaserfirer, Marinades: The Quick-Fix Way to Turn Everyday Food Into Exceptional Fare, with 400 Recipes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 258:

Rich, raisiny, smoky, coffee goodness: that is the flavor of urfa biber.

2014 October 7, Amanda Bevill, Julie Kramis Hearne, World Spice at Home: New Flavors for 75 Favorite Dishes, Sasquatch Books, →ISBN, page 42:

Paprika, allspice, and urfa biber impart warmth and richness to meat dishes and soups, while cinnamon is added to sweet dishes, especially in eastern Turkey.

2018 April 10, Stuart Farrimond, The Science of Spice: Understand Flavour Connections and Revolutionize your Cooking, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, →ISBN, page 23:

A smoky, sweet-and-sour variety of pepper cultivated in and around Şanlıurfa.


vinetree

From Middle English vyne-tre (modified after vine (“grapevine”)), from Old English wīntrēow, from Proto-Germanic *wīnatrewą, equivalent to vine + tree.

All the dayes of his ſeparation ſhall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels euen to the huſke.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Numbers 6:4:

Here note, how Chriſt calleth planely his Cup the fruit of the vinetree; but the fruit of the vinetree is very natural wine[…]

1753, Gloceſter Ridley, “Book VII”, in The Life of Dr. Nicholas Ridley ſometime Biſhop of London […] , page 496:

The visible church of God is here compared to the vine-tree, as is evident by God's own explanation of the allegory, in ver, 6–8.

1839, Jonathan Edwards, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings, volume 2, page 125:


caneberry

Any fruit (such as a raspberry or blackberry) that grows on thin, woody canes


creamy snuff

creamy snuff (countable and uncountable, plural creamy snuffs)

A paste consisting of tobacco, clove oil, glycerin, spearmint, menthol, and camphor, sold in a toothpaste tube, and marketed as a dentifrice, allowing the user to ingest nicotine without consuming it via the smoking or chewing of tobacco.


duck potato

A North American water plant with edible tubers, especially

broadleaf arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)

arum-leaved arrowhead (Sagittaria cuneata)


common ivy

common ivy (usually uncountable, plural common ivies)

The main European species of ivy, Hedera helix


Chinese chive

Allium tuberosum
Allium tuberosum#Translingual


mahaleb cherry

mahaleb cherry (usually uncountable, plural mahaleb cherries)

A species of cherry, Prunus mahaleb, whose pits are used as a spice called mahleb


Asiatic pennywort

Asiatic pennywort (usually uncountable, plural Asiatic pennyworts)

Centella asiatica
Centella asiatica#Translingual

A low-growing South Asian herb in the celery family, Centella asiatica, eaten as a green for flavor and used in traditional medicine


wild plum

Amelanchier (serviceberry), a genus in the Rosaceae producing small fruits lacking a pit.


toothpickweed

toothpickweed (countable and uncountable, plural toothpickweeds)


alubukhara

Ultimately from Persian آلوی بخارا (âlû'i buxârâ).

A cultivar of plum found in Turkestan, Iran and the South Caucasus, commonly eaten as a prune (dried plum).


moth bean

From Hindi मोठ (moṭh, “mat, mot”), connected by folk etymology to Marathi मथ (math, “moth bean”), of uncertain origin; possibly Dravidian.

Any legume of species Vigna aconitifolia.


yu choy

Seventeen brassica vegetables, that is, mustard greens, baby mustard greens, gai choy, baby gai choy, yu choy, yu choy tip, bok choy, baby bok choy, bok choy sum, Taiwan bok choy, Shanghai bok choy, baby Shanghai bok choy, napa and baby napa, rapini broccoli, and turnip greens, were bought in local food stores in Maryland.

2010 May 14, Long-Ze Lin, James M Harnly, “Phenolic Component Profiles of Mustard Greens, Yu Choy, and 15 Other Brassica Vegetables”, in J Agric Food Chem, volume 58, number 11, →DOI:

Chinese yu choy is one of the sweetest-tasting Chinese leafy green vegetables available, especially when they are picked when young and tender.

2016 January 19, “Easy Chinese yu choy sum”, in The Woks of Life:

A variety of Brassica known as B. rapa var. oleifera or B. campestris, related to choy sum and bok choy.


saguaro fruit

The fruit of the saguaro cactus, Carnegiea gigantea


spiderwisp

spiderwisp (countable and uncountable, plural spiderwisps)

Gynandropsis gynandra, a plant of family Cleomaceae, native to Africa but widely cultivated as a vegetable.


kaffir cabbage

Following a common pattern of naming South African flora and fauna kaffir (originally a neutral term for Bantu, now offensive) followed by a similar European plant or animal.

(archaic) spiderwisp; Gynandropsis gynandra


garden egg

(West Africa) The scarlet eggplant, Solanum aethiopicum, or the thorn apple, Solanum incanum.


kurrat

Allium ampeloprasum
Allium ampeloprasum#Translingual

Allium kurrat
Allium kurrat#Translingual

Egyptian leek; considered a variety of Allium ampeloprasum (Allium ampeloprasum var. kurrat) or a species Allium kurrat


flagfall

Boyce took him ahead at the flagfall , with the Hughes horse in pursuit

June 22, 2020, David Milnes, The Lir Jet swoops late to deny Wesley Ward's Golden Pal in Norfolk in The Racing Post
The result looked unlikely soon after flagfall when Wesley Ward's Golden Pal blazed a trail down the centre of the track under Andrea Atzeni

(horse racing) The start of a horse race


Pedro Ximénez

A grape variety grown in several Spanish wine regions


nipplefruit

She also came up with an elaborate hairdo using a picture of green tomatoes and, in a cheeky flourish, created a pink bulbous top made of a tropical fruit known as nipplefruit.

2020 May 20, Sara Aridi, “A Stylish Take on an Old-Fashioned Craft”, in The New York Times:

Solanum mammosum, an inedible tropical fruit native to South America.


wild almond

A tree of any of several species, similar in fruit to P. amygdalus

Prunus fasciculata, native to the southwestern United States


catànies

Crema Catalana is used in stuffed fruits, such as Peres de Lleida, pears from Lleida, one of the oldest towns in Catalonia; Catànies, Catalan marcona sweetened almonds; Mató de Pedralbes, a Catalan cream treat from Barcelona; Manjar blanco, a Spanish blancmange eaten throughout the Spanish-speaking world; and Xuixos, a deep-fried custard-filled cylindrical pastry.

2014, Timothy G. Roufs Ph.D., Kathleen Smyth Roufs, Sweet Treats Around the World: An Encyclopedia of Food and Culture:

Other sweet treats include catànies, chocolate-covered Catalan almonds, nutty galetas (biscuits), melindros (ladyfingers) and many varieties of torró (nougat).

2017, Insight Guides, Experience Barcelona:

The rest of the dinner went on with a tense normality and, as soon as we had our catànies and coffee, we said goodbye to the family, alluding to the fact that we had to get up early in the morning.

2020, Miquel Àngel Lopezosa Criado, p53: The Molecule of Life:

A Catalan sweet made from almonds coated in caramel and powdered chocolate.


topato

Synonym of pomato (“potato-tomato hybrid”)


A-choy

Ultimately from Hokkien 萵仔菜／莴仔菜 (e-á-chhài). Compare Taiwanese A菜 (ēi-cài).

zh-m

萵仔菜／莴仔菜 (e-á-chhài)


corn pudding

en-noun

corn pudding (countable and uncountable, plural corn puddings)

(US) A creamy food made chiefly from stewed corn.


stubbard

They sometimes seem to be like the apples on our stubbard-tree.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 53:


guggy egg

(Ireland) A dish for a young child consisting of a soft-to-medium boiled egg with butter, salt, and pepper, served mashed in a cup.


add to the list

en-verb

add to the list (third-person singular simple present adds to the list, present participle adding to the list, simple past and past participle added to the list)

adds to the list (present singular third-person)
adding to the list (participle present)
added to the list (participle past)
added to the list (past)

Sabinus has been added to the list.

(transitive, slang, dated, horse racing) To geld (a horse).


lavandin

en-noun

lavandin (usually uncountable, plural lavandins)

Abbreviation of translingual Lavandula × intermedia.

Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula angustifolia#Translingual

A commercially important type of lavender, Lavandula × intermedia, which is a hybrid between English lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) and spike lavender, (Lavandula latifolia), combining the sweeter fragrance of the former with the stronger, faster growth of the latter.


June plum

Spondias dulcis
Spondias dulcis#Translingual

(Jamaica, Bermuda) Spondias dulcis or its fruit.


french-fried potatoes

french-fried potatoes pl (normally plural, singular french-fried potato)

There had to be a secret something to make french fries that good. / Now, to most people, a french-fried potato is a pretty uninspiring object. It’s fodder, something to kill time chewing between bites of hamburger and swallows of milk shake. That’s your ordinary french fry. The McDonald’s french fry was in an entirely different league.

1977, Ray Kroc, Robert Anderson, Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s, Contemporary Books, →ISBN, page 9:

He ate quickly, as it is easy to do with fried food—opening a tartar sauce, dipping pieces of fish, lifting a few french fries, stabbing them into the ketchup, then biting them, and repeating. He ate his while it was hot, holding his fork for the coleslaw and, every now and then, tasting it. He watched Christina feeling closer to her and thought, maybe it was the pleasure of the food. He watched her open a small-side container of clear liquid, dip a french-fried potato into it, and then eat it.

2008, Tige Lewis Quintina, Gelatin Silver Print, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 118:

He ordered panfish that was served with creamy coleslaw and some french-fried potatoes.

2012, Brenda Smith, Insane Circumstances, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 229:

French-fried potatoes
French-fried potatoes#English

Alternative letter-case form of French-fried potatoes


chalk-eating weasel

chalk-eating weasel (plural chalk-eating weasels)

(horse racing) A bettor who regularly wagers on the favorite.


English thyme

English thyme (usually uncountable, plural English thymes)

A common species of thyme grown for its use in cooking, Thymus vulgaris, especially a cultivated type with rounder, flatter and smoother leaves.


lemon thyme

Cultivars of other species with a similar appearance and scent, especially the creeping species Thymus pulegioides.


caraway thyme

caraway thyme (usually uncountable, plural caraway thymes)

A creeping species of thyme native to the Mediterranean islands of Sardinia, Corsica and Majorca, which is grown for its caraway-scented leaves


French thyme

French thyme (usually uncountable, plural French thymes)

A variety of English thyme with leaves that curl under along the sides and that have woolly hairs on the undersides, and which is often considered one of the best thymes for cooking.


creeping thyme

creeping thyme (usually uncountable, plural creeping thymes)

A species of thyme native to Europe and northern Africa, Thymus praecox, grown as a fragrant groundcover due to its tendency to branch and grow horizontally.

Wild thyme, Thymus serpyllum, which has a similar habit.


Korean mint

Korean mint (usually uncountable, plural Korean mints)

An anise-scented Asian perennial herb, Agastache rugosa.


licorice mint

licorice mint (usually uncountable, plural licorice mints)


white corn

white corn (countable and uncountable, plural white corns)

Any of several varieties of sweet corn maize, typically sweeter and more suitable for bread-making than yellow corn.


form book

(British) An annual book produced showing the results for the year's horse races together with comments on each runner.


market horse

[N]othing is easier than to make sure […] that the horse selected, in the event of the public fancying him, shall be made a market horse, and be “milked” for the benefit of those interested: the losing of a race may at any time be ensured, and there are scores of “turf dairymen” who are reputed adepts in the use of the milking pail.

1892, James Glass Bertram, A Mirror of the Turf, page 271:

(horse racing, slang, obsolete) A horse kept in the betting-lists for the sole purpose of being betted against.


carpetweed

carpetweed (countable and uncountable, plural carpetweeds)

A low-growing North American weed (Mollugo verticillata).


cassabanana

The banana passionfruit or any of several similar plants of the family Cucurbitaceae


pushki

Heracleum maximum
Heracleum maximum#Translingual


clogwood

The wood (typically alder) used for making clogs.


clownheal

The herb Stachys palustris, supposedly used to heal wounds to the feet made with a scythe


clusterberry

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-clusterberry.wav

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea#Translingual


Gros Michel

A triploid cultivar of banana, popular in the early 20th century, predominant in the marketplace, but wiped out as a commercial cultivar mid-20th century by Panama disease.


Big Mike

Calque of French Gros Michel; from gros (“big”) + Michel (“Michael”)


yareta

Azorella compacta, a South American flowering cushion plant in the family Apiaceae.


eggsactly

en-adv

eggsactly (comparative more eggsactly, superlative most eggsactly)

more eggsactly (comparative)
most eggsactly (superlative)

Eggsactly, is exactly what we mean! In the highly competitive field of egg processing, fast, efficient production methods are essential for a profitable, successful operation.

1960, Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, page 9:

How to boil eggs eggsactly as ordered and at a profit.

Only two of the chocolate Easter eggs are ‘eggsactly’ the same size, which two?

2006, 1000 Junior Holiday Puzzles, New Dawn Press, Inc., published 2009, →ISBN:

Not Eggsactly What You Thought / Bird eggs are perfect structures that contain all of the materials needed to support the growth of a new life or, in many unlucky cases, provide a highly nutritious meal to any number of different critters.

2016, Richard Evershed, Nicola Temple, Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics, Bloomsbury:

(informal, humorous) Exactly, when referring to eggs or Easter.


grugru nut

(Caribbean) The edible kernel from the fruit of the grugru palm, Acrocomia aculeata


bronze fennel

en-noun

bronze fennel (usually uncountable, plural bronze fennels)

An ornamental variety of fennel having a dark, brownish purple tint to the foliage, and a stronger, less sweet flavor than the other cultivated varieties.


snuff-horn

When the coffee was drunk, and the cup was put away with many thanks and blessings, she went demurely to the hearth, and pulled out a snuff-horn.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 302:

A container for snuff made from an animal's horn.


poroporo

(New Zealand) The plant Solanum aviculare.


kippersol

(South Africa) A South African tree of the genus Cussonia


Irish apricot

"Ha! ha!" retorted his opponent, with a malicious grin, "and sugar, Sir, sugar, sugar; will your Irish apricots make sugar? No, no, mangel wurzel is the thing to fatten and improve everything and anything. […]"

1839, John Gideon Millingen, Stories of Torres Vedras, page 140:


dead amiss

At the mention of the increased amount of odds, the snob took the youngster aside, and said to him, "Look now, by the book, we have the old man done brown; my horse is dead amiss, your cousin's horse you can beat easy, […]

1840, John William Carleton, The Sporting Review, page 286:

Sunshine ran gamely, but was clearly out of condition; and Gamos, who was dead amiss at Bath, having got round, beat her from the superiority of her training, […]

1870, Tresham Gilbey, Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume 18, page 320:

(horse racing) Of a horse: too ill to compete.


grouseberry

grouse whortleberry
grouse whortleberry#English


grouse whortleberry

grouse whortleberry (plural grouse whortleberries)

Vaccinium scoparium, a species of huckleberry.


Captain Armstrong

A pun on the name Armstrong, referring to the use of a strong arm.

"Poor child," he said to himself, all his angry feelings changing, "she seems to have set her heart so upon winning, it would be sad if she were disappointed. No one has much on it: shall I try Captain Armstrong for once? It would make her very happy. Bar accidents, I must win. They don't know that the chestnut has not extended himself yet."

1860, George Alfred Lawrence, Guy Livingstone, page 70:

He had practised “Captain Armstrong” so palpably as to be banished from the Turf.

1886, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 46, page 413:

We have not an iota of belief in this or any other "Captain Armstrong" insinuation against high-class jockeys, who have far too comfortable incomes, and too much proper pride, to place their characters in any man's power, […]

(horse racing, archaic, slang) A form of cheating in which the jockey deliberately pulls his horse back so that it does not win.


call a cab

en-verb

call a cab (third-person singular simple present calls a cab, present participle calling a cab, simple past and past participle called a cab)

calls a cab (present singular third-person)
calling a cab (participle present)
called a cab (participle past)
called a cab (past)

(raise arm while riding): From the similarity to the raised-arm gesture used to summon a taxi.

An habitually raised arm, termed 'calling a cab', was the trademark of amateurism.

1994, Dick Francis, Wild Horses, page 137:

Drawings of races sixty years ago show the riders trying to avoid catching their horses in the mouth by stretching forward with one arm and lifting the other hand backwards off the reins into the position known as 'calling a cab'.
Although it is no longer the normal and recognized thing to do, 'calling a cab' is still occasionally seen when a jockey finds himself in difficulties over a fence.

2002, Frank R. Scatoni, Finished Lines, page 181:

(horse racing) To raise one's arm to maintain balance while riding.


paludiculture

From Latin palus (“swamp”) + cultūra (“cultivation, agriculture”).

These diverse options for biomass from paludiculture show its great potential for future circular bio-economy applications.


setoka

en-noun

setoka (usually uncountable, plural setokas)

From Japanese せとか (setoka), which in turn is said to derive from one or more Japanese place names. Compare 早崎瀬戸(はやさきせと) (Hayasaki Seto, “Hayasaki strait”), 瀬戸内地方(せとうちちほう) (Setouchi chihō, “Seto region”), areas where the fruit was developed and is grown.

ja-r

Only commercial shipments of Shiranuhui and Setoka citrus can be imported, and will have to comply to the same requirements as shipments of Unshu oranges from South Korea.

2015 February 3, Gabrielle Easter, “Unshu hybrids gain US access”, in Fruit Net:

Recently "my taster" (Satoshi) picked out an orange called Setoka. They were giving out samples at the market, so you know what he was doing...

2019 March 6, Kat & Satoshi, “setoka”, in Our Adventure in Japan:

In Japan, setoka oranges are compared to the fat underbelly of tuna, and called the "otoro of the citrus world," due to the juicy and plump flesh of the fruit.

2020 July 31, Jess, “Tokyo’s raindrop jelly-like traditional summer mochi has citrus surprise”, in Japan Today:

Citrus reticulata
Citrus reticulata#Translingual

Citrus sinensis
Citrus sinensis#Translingual

A cultivar of tangor (tangerine/orange hybrid, Citrus reticulata × Citrus sinensis).


kitty crack

In reference to cats' fondness for the plant; see crack (“form of cocaine”).


blow up the tote

en-verb

blow up the tote (third-person singular simple present blows up the tote, present participle blowing up the tote, simple past blew up the tote, past participle blown up the tote)

blows up the tote (present singular third-person)
blowing up the tote (participle present)
blew up the tote (past)
blown up the tote (participle past)

From the whimsical notion that the payout on a particularly high-priced longshot might be a larger number than the tote board is capable of computing and/or displaying.

Giacomo blew up the tote by winning the 2005 Kentucky Derby at odds of 50-1.

(horse racing, of a horse) To win a race as a long shot.


hog potato

(chiefly New World) Any species or cultivar of potato or sweet potato so disagreeable in taste and/or small that it is preferedly employed to feed pigs.


gate-to-wire

Authentic led the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Classic at every point of call en route to a gate-to-wire victory.

(US, horse racing) From start to finish. (Usually used to describe a horse that wins a race by leading throughout.)


bansalague

Mimusops elengi
Mimusops elengi#Translingual

(Philippines) The wood of the tree Mimusops elengi.


Robola

He began to notice that a large amount of Robola was accumulating, and he expostulated to himself, ‘What? Do they all think I'm a drunk?’

1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 38:

A variety of grape, chiefly grown on the island of Cephalonia, or the white wine which is made from it.


knobweed

en-noun

knobweed (usually uncountable, plural knobweeds)

Hyptis capitata, an erect annual lamiaceous shrub.


Olivette

St. Louis County
St. Louis County#English

A municipality of St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.


raceday

(horse racing) A day on which a race is held


Persian cumin

Persian cumin (usually uncountable, plural Persian cumins)


fruit vegetable

fruit vegetable (plural fruit vegetables)

(botany) A vegetable with a pulpy, seed-rich body which grows on a vine.


Wealthy

Named by Peter Gideon (1820–1899), creator of the cultivar, after his wife, Wealthy (Hull) Gideon.

Wealthys and McIntoshes are not good bakers.

1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, page 129:

A certain cultivar of American apple from Minnesota.


Fameuse

A kind of sweet red apple originating in Canada.


potomato

Synonym of pomato (“potato-tomato hybrid”)


on the rail

(horse racing) Alternative form of on the rails


queen of spices

Coordinate term: king of spices


jock off

en-verb

jock off (third-person singular simple present jocks off, present participle jocking off, simple past and past participle jocked off)

jocks off (present singular third-person)
jocking off (participle present)
jocked off (participle past)
jocked off (past)

Dawn Run's owner, Charmian Hill, who had insisted on trainer Paddy Mullins 'jocking off' his son Tony and putting up Jonjo O'Neill to ride her in the Gold Cup, was an awkward cuss too.

2012, Robin Oakley, Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time:

(transitive, informal, horse racing) To replace (a jockey) with another.


newy

Lets go to Newy for a skate


palo santo

en-noun

palo santo (plural palo santos or palos santos)

palo santos (plural)
palos santos (plural)

Palo santo oil is the product of Bulnesia sarmienti , which is known as palo santo ( holy wood ) to the Paraguayans.

1947, Industrial Reference Service - Volume 5, Part 2, page 2:

The cleansing power of palo santo wood comes with a sense of sweet blessings and nourishment; it clears the negative vibrations and brings forth a healing quality of energy to your home.

2017, Rodika Tchi, The Healing Power of Smudging:

Palo santo helps support the immune system by turning off inflammatory responses created by a poor diet, pollution, stress, and illness.

2017, Kac Young, The Healing Art of Essential Oils:

Palo santo (Bursera graveolens or Bulnesia sarmienti) is a critically overharvested plant native to South and Central America, closely related to frankincense.

2021, Sara L. Mastros, The Big Book of Magical Incense:

We fell in love with the Palo Santo so much that we commissioned John to return to Paraguay and harvest more of this sustainably harvested Palo Santo wood and ship it back to us on a container boat.

2021, Sam Calagione, Mariah Calagione, Andrew C. Greeley, The Dogfish Head Book: 26 Years of Off-Centered Adventures, page 153:

Palo santo, known for its cleansing energy, is lovely to have on hand for adding a sweet healing aroma to the air.

2022, Shellie Pomeroy, Natural Tables, page 107:

(US) A medium-sized deciduous tree indigenous to the tropical dry forests of Central and South America, Bursera graveolens or Gonopterodendron sarmientoi, known for its sweet scent.


field mint

From Middle English *feld-minte, from Old English feldminte, equivalent to field + mint.


wild mint

From Middle English wyldemynt, wilde mente, equivalent to wild + mint.

Any aromatic North American mint of the species Hedeoma pulegioides


sermountain

From Middle English sermontayne, from Old French sermontain. The modern English form has been remodelled after mountain.

Take of the freſh Roots of both Peonies, at Full Moon, each one Ounce and an half; ſlice them, and infuſe them in white-wine for the ſpace of a Day; of Contrayerra^([sic]) half an Ounce, of Sermountain ſix Drams[…]

1694, John Pechey, “Peony, in Latin Paeonia”, in The compleat herbal of physical plants, Henry Bonwicke, page 146:

La Cerda fancies it to be the Siler montanum, or Sermountain, because he thinks it more elegant for the poet to speak of two which grow in the plains, and two in the rivers[…]

1814, “Liber Secundus”, in Vergil, edited by John Martyn, Georgicorum libri quatuor, 4th edition, Oxford: W. Baxter, page 112:

[…]though both sermountain species grew abundantly among young Scots pines on the rocky, south-facing slope bordering the road.

1990, Bulletin de la Société entomologique suisse, volumes 62-63, Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, page 304:

(now rare) A plant of the genus Laserpitium.


earth pea

Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut, jugo bean)


queen apple

A class of early-ripening apples with red flesh; an apple of this class.


bannut

Wor. They picks they stones off the common, as small as bannuts (H.K.). w.Wor.¹ Sarmints is ahl like bannuts; d’reckly yŭ opens ’um, yŭ knaows w’ats in ’um.[…]se.Wor.¹ The fust time as ever I knaowed ’im wus w’en ’e wus took up fur stalin’ bannits.[…]We cannot tell how many bannuts there be, till we beat the trees (A.B.); Ellis Pronun. (1889) V. 66. ne.Glo. The old man … forbade the young fellow’s visits, bluntly declaring that he might go and ‘bad the bannuts’ somewhere else, Household Wds. (1885) 141.[…]Som. A woman, a spaunel, and a bannut tree, The mooar you bate ’em the better they be, W. & J. Gl. (1873);

1898, “BANNUT, sb.”, in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volumes I (A–C), London: Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →OCLC, page 158, column 1:

Crack nuts and bannuts (walnuts), / Say the bells of St. Weonard’s.

1912, Ella Mary Leather, The Folk-Lore of Herefordshire: Collected from Oral and Printed Sources, page 241:

In 1810-11 the tenant of Rushock Court at his own expense, planted: / 220 strong pears at 3/- / 56 pear stocks at 2/- / 104 pears at 1/6 / 114 stocks at 2/- / 60 crabs at 1/6 / 41 crabs at 1/- / 26 damsons at 1/6 / 14 walnuts at 2/- / 2 Bannuts at 3/- / 6 Spanish Chestnuts at 1/- /—total with expenses of planting £79 2s. 0d.

1913, Gerald Poynton Mander, The History of the Wolverhampton Grammar School, Wolverhampton: […] Steens Limited at the Old Grammar School Press, page 338:

One of the workmen remarked that “He be so like a Christian you canna pass him without givin’ him summat, an’ now I gives him the bannuts* he runs to the door to meet me when he sees me a-comin’.”[…]* “Bannuts”—local word for walnuts.

1917 January, Frances Pitt, “The Education of “The Coon””, in The Badminton Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume XLVII, number 258, London, page 84:


Cusick's biscuitroot

Cusick's biscuitroot (plural Cusick's biscuitroots)

Lomatium cusickii, a species of perennial herb.


fraughan

Borrowed from Irish fraochán (“blueberry, bilberry”).

bor+

Unlike the Wicklow Gold Mines at Mount Croughan, / Where thrives that Lilliputian Tree, the Fraughan.

1824, Rory O'Reilly, Retrospection, Dublin: J. Carrick & Son, page 2:

His bare feet, as they trod the heather and fraughan beneath them , sent a thrill of primitive ecstacy to his expectant mind.

1906, W. M. Letts, “Paudeen in the Woods”, in Temple Bar, volume 1, London: Macmillan & Co., page 553:

Over the centuries and over the seasons, fruit gathering became woven into the fabric of Irish rural life and the fraughan, being the first of the wild berries to ripen, was the occasion for an outing.

2018 May 3, Margaret Hickey, Ireland’s Green Larder: The Definitive History of Irish Food, Unbound, →ISBN, page 38:

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

(Ireland) The bilberry or whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus).


frankencorn

From franken- + corn, on analogy with frankenfood.

New Contraceptive Frankencorn Being Tested
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,548964,00.html
GM corn set to stop man spreading his seed

2001 September 18, Chive Mynde, “Contraceptive Frankencorn Being Tested”, in talk.environment (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-25:

Did everybody hear about the illegal Frankencorn that escaped, ran amuck in the USA, and ruined much of last year's crop? No? Can you say; hushed-up?

2002 February 20, Doug Bashford, “BioPiracy, Genitec engieering, Frankenfoods, Trickery, and Slavery”, in alt.politics.democrats.d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-25:

Oh, and genetically-modified corn/wheat/whatever that can tolerate harsher conditions are a must-have. The time for the luxury of whining about frankencorn is about over.

2012 August 12, Mr.B1ack, “#Drought: America's new normal”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet), retrieved 2022-03-25:

Genetically modified
genetically modified

(colloquial, derogatory) Genetically modified corn.


distaffer

(horse racing) A horse that races in a distaff (race for female horses only).


gumbi gumbi

Bo said, ‘Them bloody doctors are no good to you, old mate. You ought to come down to Ranna with us and get yourself a good dose of cumby cumby.’

2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 122:

A small shrub with little star-shaped yellow flowers and yellow/orange-skinned fruit, gumbi gumbi (Pittosporum angustifolium) is found throughout the drier areas of Australia […].

2022, John Newton, Cooking With the Oldest Foods on Earth:

(Australia) A shrub or small tree, Pittosporum angustifolium, growing in inland Australia, used by Aboriginal peoples for food and medicine.


desert onion

Allium macropetalum
Allium macropetalum#Translingual

Allium macropetalum, a species of wild onion.


August plum

(botany) A wild plum tree of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh (Prunus americana).


puffed grain

Grains that have been processed to expand (puff).


Flemish beauty

en-noun

Flemish beauty (plural Flemish beauties)

A reddish-yellow pear cultivar of Belgian origin.


anjeer

In Unani medicine, Anjeer is used as a mild laxative, expectorant, diuretic; also in the diseases of the liver and spleen as a deobstruent and anti-inflammatory agent.

2011, C. P. Hare, Indian Herbal Remedies, page 219:

1 1⁄2 cups anjeer soaked in S cups of water

2015, Vanita Vij, The Flavours of India: Cooking the Indian Way:


blue raspberry

(marketing) An artificial flavor used in candy and soft drinks, which, despite the name, is not derived from any species of raspberry. It is often used with bright blue synthetic food coloring.


ancient grain

A grain or pseudocereal purported to be minimally changed by selective breeding over recent millennia (often used in plural and in the context of marketing)

grain ancien

cereal or pseudocereal minimally changed by breeding


Hubbardston Nonesuch

Hubbardston Nonesuch (plural Hubbardston Nonesuches)

Named after the Massachusetts town of Hubbardston

A green/orange heirloom apple originating in New England.


vegetablelike

en-adj

vegetablelike (comparative more vegetablelike, superlative most vegetablelike)

more vegetablelike (comparative)
most vegetablelike (superlative)

Resembling or characteristic of a vegetable.


umbrellawort

Any of various plants in the genus Mirabilis.


creeping sage

Salvia sonomensis, a species of sage with blue to purple flowers.


sourtop blueberry

en-noun

sourtop blueberry (plural sourtop blueberries)


Cleopatra mandarin

Cleopatra mandarin (plural Cleopatra mandarins)

A citrus tree (Citrus reshni) with fruit resembling the lemon.


madweed

Synonym of hoodwort (“the plant Scutellaria galericulata”)


great northern bean

great northern bean (plural great northern beans)

A large navy bean that has a flattened shape similar to lima beans and a delicate flavor.


Canada onion

A perennial plant, (Allium canadense), native to eastern North America.


meadow garlic

meadow garlic (countable and uncountable, plural meadow garlics)

Synonym of Canada onion (Allium canadense)


Canadian garlic

Canadian garlic (countable and uncountable, plural Canadian garlics)


sickleweed

An herb of the carrot family, Falcaria vulgaris.


moon carrot

Seseli libanotis, a Eurasian herb of the carrot family.


aniseroot

Any of certain North American herbs of the genus Osmorhiza.


sweet cicely

Myrrhis odorata
Myrrhis odorata#Translingual

Any of various herbs of the genus Osmorhiza, related to and similar in appearance to those in species Myrrhis odorata.


woodbalm

Lepechinia calycina, an herb native to California.


Belle de Boskoop

Belle de Boskoop (plural Belle de Boskoops)

Conversely, the Belle de Boskoop, a greenish-yellow apple with rough skin, perfectly crisp and tangy, only tastes better when you store it for several months before eating it. Chefs love Belle de Boskoops for their ability to hold up in the oven.

2018, Angie Quaale, Eating Local in the Fraser Valley, Random House, →ISBN:

A tart and fragrant apple cultivar which originated in Boskoop, Netherlands.


creek plum

A shrub native to the central United States, Prunus rivularis, which produces bitter berries.


Watling Street thistle

Watling Street thistle (plural Watling Street thistles)


field eryngo

/fiːld iːˈɹɪŋɡəʊ/

Calque of translingual Eryngium campestre.

calque

Eryngium capestre
Eryngium capestre#Translingual

A European medicinal herb (Eryngium capestre) of the carrot family.


rock grape

A species of grape native to the Ozarks, Vitis rupestris.


summer grape

Vitis labrusca
Vitis labrusca#Translingual

A grape of species Vitis labrusca, native to the Eastern U.S.; a fox grape.


desert raisin

The botanist Peter Latz of Alice Springs in the arid center of the continent, who grew up with and learned firestick tactics from the Arrernte Aborigines, estimates that they got about one-third of their food from firestick management of the land. He personally fancies a kind of desert raisin, a Solanum relative of the potato and tomato, which pops up after the burning off of spinifex. "Bloody good tucker!" says he.

2002 April 8, Alfred W. Crosby, Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47:


run nowhere

en-verb

run nowhere (third-person singular simple present runs nowhere, present participle running nowhere, simple past ran nowhere, past participle run nowhere)

runs nowhere (present singular third-person)
running nowhere (participle present)
ran nowhere (past)
run nowhere (participle past)

(horse racing, slang) To finish the race unplaced.


scaleseed

Any of a genus, Spermolepis, of American herbs of the carrot family.


cainito

en-noun

cainito (countable and uncountable, plural cainitos)

From Latin cainito, from Spanish caimito, from Lokono.


table grape

Any variety of grape especially suited for eating at the table, as opposed to winemaking; usually, its suitability has been imparted by selective breeding (as for example to maximize sweetness, flavor, or hardiness for shipping/distribution).

csemegeszőlő

a grape grown for eating rather than for making wine


kotataberry

Duyck was a farmer who grew the kotataberry, you see, which no one's ever heard of. And Duyck thought if we named the marionberry the state fruit, no one would ever hear of the kotataberry ever again.

2017 February 14, Matthew Korfhage, “Oregon Legislature Finally Introduces Bill to Make Marionberry Pie the State Pie”, in Willamette Week:

There’s nothing like picking plump, sun-warmed fruit (one for the bucket, one for you) and at this iconic Whakatāne attraction, you can do just that. Strawberries, blackberries, boysenberries, raspberries and blueberries are on offer as well as Ranui berries and kotataberries.

2020 December 12, Sharon Stephenson, “Three of the best 'pick your own' fruit farms”, in Stuff:

A blackberry cultivar developed in Oregon, United States, having small to medium-sized berries of a purple-black color and longish shape.


cackle-fart

He grabbed the last four of yesterday's eggs and a fistful of oats mixed with dried peas, making a mental note to see Fern Thorburn this day for more cackle-farts

2017, Tale Monger, Blood Line - Secrets:


death-of-man

Cicuta maculata, a highly poisonous flowering plant native to nearly all of North America.


corn rice

(chiefly Asia) Corn that is ground to look like rice.


perfumed cherry

perfumed cherry (plural perfumed cherries)


Yellow Transparent

Yellow Transparent (plural Yellow Transparents)

From a variation of White Transparent based on the colour of the apple. Equivalent to yellow + transparent.

An apple cultivar with a subacidic taste and fine flesh


jockey's cap

The flowering plant Prostanthera striatiflora.


aromatic ginger

Kaempferia galanga
Kaempferia galanga#Translingual


nozawana

A Japanese leaf vegetable, often pickled.


resurrection lily

resurrection lily (plural resurrection lilies)


hedgenettle

hedgenettle (countable and uncountable, plural hedgenettles)

Any of certain plants of the genus Stachys.


blood lime

A small reddish-orange lime, a cross between the red finger lime (Citrus australasica var. sanguinea) and the 'Ellendale Mandarin' which is a sweet orange/mandarin cross.


cheese fries

(Canada, US) French fries covered or cooked in cheese (especially when grated or melted) or cheese sauce and sometimes loaded with other ingredients.


Frankenthal

Synonym of Trollinger (“German grape variety”)


hapus mango

hapus mango (plural hapus mangos or hapus mangoes)

hapus mangos (plural)
hapus mangoes (plural)

From an Indian language, compare Gujarati આફૂસ (āphūs).
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straight cigarette

straight cigarette (plural straight cigarettes)

The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback).

2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A ready-made cigarette, as opposed to a rollup.