eggcellent

en-adj

eggcellent (comparative more eggcellent, superlative most eggcellent)

more eggcellent (comparative)
most eggcellent (superlative)

When emptied of their contents and allowed to dry, chicken, duck, or goose eggshells form an “eggcellent” base that can be covered with polymer clay to form sturdy ornaments and decorative objects for Easter or other holidays.

2003, Sarajane Helm, Celebrations With Polymer Clay: 25 Seasonal Projects, Krause Publications, →ISBN, page 60:

Food trends specialist Phil Lempert offered several "eggcellent" ideas for marketing eggs during his recent remarks to the United Egg Producers.

2006 December 18, “'Eggcellent' ideas for food producers”, in Feedstuffs:

She Crabs laden with egg make very eggcellent soup.

2013, Deji Badiru, Iswat Badiru, Physics in the Nigerian Kitchen, iUniverse, →ISBN:

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


cos lettuce

en-noun

cos lettuce (countable and uncountable, plural cos lettuces)

Uncertain. Variously derived from Cos, an alternative spelling of the Greek island of Kos, or from Arabic خس (ḵass, “lettuce”).

(chiefly UK) Synonym of romaine lettuce, a long-leaved variety of lettuce.


eggstravaganza

The cake and egg show, advertised as an "eggstravaganza," last May in Tulsa, Oklahoma, may suggest to home economists elsewhere ways of helping to improve the egg marketing situation.

1945, The Journal of Home Economics, volume 37, page 95:

It's an eggstravaganza! Garden staff dye eggs donated by local markets and tuck them into nooks and crannies throughout the expansive grounds.

2002, Karen Hastings, Insiders' Guide to Santa Barbara: Including Channel Islands National Park, Insiders' Guide, →ISBN, page 225:

Throw yourself an eggstravaganza each and every day by including heart-healthy egg whites in a multitude of ways.

2013, Julie Feldman, Grocery Makeover: Small Changes for Big Results, Spry Publishing, →ISBN:

(informal, humorous) An extravaganza involving eggs.


eggstraordinary

en-adj

eggstraordinary (comparative more eggstraordinary, superlative most eggstraordinary)

more eggstraordinary (comparative)
most eggstraordinary (superlative)

So whether you are in the mood for a frittata bursting with spinach and ham, or an omelette redolent with glazed onions, heat up the skillet, and get ready for an eggstraordinary delight.

1996, Sandra Woodruff, Secrets of Fat-Free Italian Cooking: Over 130 Low-Fat and Fat-Free, Traditional and Contemporary Recipes, Avery Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 39:

An "eggstraordinary" tip is the use of salt on eggs.

2000 January 15, Betty Saw, “Eggstremely versatile”, in New Straits Times:

Decorate “eggstraordinary” Easter eggs with your family's pictures on them to make a beautiful centerpiece for your table.

2006, Sandra Magsamen, Living Artfully: A Heart-full Guide of Ideas and Inspirations That Celebrate Life, Love, and Moments That Matter, Atria Books, published 2008, →ISBN:

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


eggciting

eggciting (comparative more eggciting, superlative most eggciting)

more eggciting (comparative)
most eggciting (superlative)

The amniotic egg was an “eggciting” development for an animal that reproduces on land.

2004, Debbie Routh, Learning About Vertebrates, Mark Twain Media, →ISBN, page 24:

A somewhat classic and "eggciting" illustration of Newton's laws of motion is the egg drop experiment.

2006, Roger Hinrichs, Merlin H. Kleinbach, Energy: Its Use and the Environment, Thomson, →ISBN, page 61:

For children, this has to be Paris's most 'eggciting' restaurant, serving nothing but chicken eggs in the form of omelettes (more than 22 varieties), […]

2008, Anna Brooke, Frommer's Paris and Disneyland Resort Paris With Your Family, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 172:

(informal, humorous) Exciting, when referring to eggs.


coracan

From Sri Lankan Tamil குரக்கன் (kurakkaṉ), which is cognate with, if not from, Sinhalese කුරක්කං (kurakkaṁ).

Eleusine coracana
Eleusine coracana#Translingual


baingan

en-noun

baingan (usually uncountable, plural baingans)

(India, uncommon) An eggplant; a brinjal.


glory tree

Any of several species of the genus Clerodendrum, showy flowering shrubs of tropical regions.


fool's parsley

Aethusa cynapium, an annual umbelliferous plant that resembles parsley but is poisonous.


Roman wormwood

Artemisia pontica
Artemisia pontica#Translingual

A smaller relative of wormwood, Artemisia pontica


herb Gerard

Named after St. Gerard of Toul, who used to be invoked against the gout.

[…] Calamint given inwardly, Betony, Elecampane, Master-wort or the Herb Gerard given inwardly […]

1720, E. R. (Gent.), “Things good in general for Cramps or Convulsions of the Sinews”, in The Experienc'd Farrier; Or, Farring Compleated, page 257:

GOUT WORT, the herb Gerard, Ashweed and Jump-about.

1731, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary:

Aegopodium podagraria
Aegopodium podagraria#Translingual

(archaic) The ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).


Indian wheat

Indian wheat (usually uncountable, plural Indian wheats)

A plant of species Plantago ovata, a plantain that is a source of psyllium.


pea bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

Various varieties of Phaseolus vulgaris (common beans that can be eaten as string beans or cooked from dried beans).

A very small and highly esteemed variety of the edible white bean.

A bicoloured (red-brown and white) bean found in Britain.

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual


German wheat

Triticum spelta
Triticum spelta#Translingual


back the field

en-verb

back the field (third-person singular simple present backs the field, present participle backing the field, simple past and past participle backed the field)

backs the field (present singular third-person)
backing the field (participle present)
backed the field (participle past)
backed the field (past)

(horse racing) To bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win.


wild radish

Raphanus raphanistrum
Raphanus raphanistrum#Translingual

A plant of species Raphanus raphanistrum (jointed charlock or white charlock).


milk parsley

Peucedanum palustre, an almost glabrous biennial plant in the family Apiaceae. A thin, foetid, milky latex is found in its young parts.


holy grass

en-noun

holy grass (usually uncountable, plural holy grasses)

It was traditionally sometimes strewn on the floors of churches on festival days.

Hierochloe odorata
Hierochloe odorata#Translingual

Anthoxanthum nitens
Anthoxanthum nitens#Translingual

Hierochloe odorata (syn. Anthoxanthum nitens), fragrant grass native to northern Eurasia and North America.


multiflora bean

multiflora bean (plural multiflora beans)

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual


Molucca palm

Nypa fruticans
Nypa fruticans#Translingual


goosetongue

goosetongue (usually uncountable, plural goosetongues)

Plantago maritima (sea plantain, seaside plantain)


orange mint

A mint that smells of oranges, now specifically bergamot mint, Mentha × piperita var. citrata.


elephant apple

Compound of elephant + apple.
Limonia acidissima: due to the skin of the fruit being akin to the skin of elephants.

The fruit of several tropical Asian trees:

wood apple, a citrus relative (Limonia acidissima)

Limonia acidissima
Limonia acidissima#Translingual

bael, another citrus relative (Aegle marmelos)

Aegle marmelos
Aegle marmelos#Translingual


umbrella tree

An umbrella magnolia (Magnolia tripetala).

An octopus tree (Schefflera actinophylla).

Terminalia catappa
Terminalia catappa#Translingual

Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).

1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:


giant fennel

Ferula communis
Ferula communis#Translingual

Ferula communis, a tall herbaceous perennial (not a true fennel), of the family Apiaceae, native to the Mediterranean and eastern Africa.


katmon

Dillenia philippinensis, a tree endemic to the Philippines, whose fruit is known as the elephant apple.


negro corn

Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor#Translingual

(archaic) durra; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor)


loureiro

loureiro (countable and uncountable, plural loureiros)

The 2016 Phaunus Vinho Verde from Aphros in Portugal, made entirely of the loureiro grape, seemed to have the weight and depth of Champagne.

2018 March 8, Eric Asimov, “Bubbles, With Joy: Pétillant Naturel’s Triumphant Return”, in The New York Times:

A grape variety cultivated in Spain and Portugal, used in the production of white wine.

A variety of white wine made from this grape.


onionweed

Asphodelus fistulosus, an annual or short-lived perennial herb with a hollow stem and a large tuft of onion-like rounded hollow leaves.


Mission grape

Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera#Translingual

The European grapevine (Vitis vinifera), introduced from Spain to the western coasts of North and South America by Catholic New World missionaries for use in winemaking.


bhut jolokia

Borrowed from Assamese ভোট-জলকীয়া (bhüt-zolokia, literally “Bhutanese chili”) or ভূত-জলকীয়া (bhut-zolokia, literally “ghost chili”).

bor+

A kind of very spicy hot chili pepper from India.


ghost pepper

Calque of Assamese ভোট-জলকীয়া (bhüt-zolokia, “Bhutanese chili”). The first element bhüt, meaning Bhutanese, was mistakenly confused for a near-homonym bhut meaning ghost, thus producing the English (mis-)translation "ghost pepper".

cal

I buy a puree of ghost peppers from Dave's Gourmet, the makers of Dave's Insanity Sauce […]

2012, Kevin Gillespie, David Joachim, Fire in My Belly: Real Cooking, page 241:


Chinese radish

en-noun

Chinese radish (plural Chinese radishes)

(Chinese cuisine) Synonym of daikon, particularly its Chinese varieties.


Spanish potato

Spanish potato (plural Spanish potatoes)

Gerard grew them in 1597, but only as curiosities, under the name of Virginian Potatoes (Battata Virginianorum and Pappas), to distinguish them from the Spanish Potato, or Convolvulus Battatas

1884, Henry Nicholson Ellacombe, The Plant-lore & Garden-craft of Shakespeare:


Chinese white radish

Chinese white radish (plural Chinese white radishes)


Japanese radish

Japanese radish (plural Japanese radishes)

(Japanese cuisine) Synonym of daikon, particularly its Japanese varieties.


icicle radish

From a supposed resemblance to an icicle.

A much smaller cylindrical white radish cultivar of the European radish.


Korean radish

(Korean cuisine) Synonym of daikon, particularly its greener, rounder Korean varieties.


giant white radish

giant white radish (plural giant white radishes)

Sakurajima radish
Sakurajima radish#English


Oriental radish

Oriental radish (plural Oriental radishes)

Synonym of daikon, particularly its elongated Chinese varieties.


red daikon

watermelon radish
watermelon radish#English


lo bak

From Cantonese 蘿蔔／萝卜 (lo4 baak6, “radish, carrot”).

(Cantonese cuisine) Synonym of daikon, particularly its Cantonese varieties.


red meat radish

red meat radish (plural red meat radishes)


true daikon

(botany) The common daikon, to distinguish the principal large, long, and white variety from various other forms such as the watermelon radish.


beauty heart radish

beauty heart radish (plural beauty heart radishes)

A calque of the Chinese name 心里美蘿蔔 (xīnlǐměi luóbó, "beautiful-at-heart radish").


watermelon radish

watermelon radish (plural watermelon radishes)

From a supposed resemblance to the watermelon.

(Chinese cuisine) A round heirloom variety of the daikon (long white radish) having a bright pink or fuchsia center.


long white radish

long white radish (plural long white radishes)


shinrimei

From Mandarin 心裡美蘿蔔／心里美萝卜 (xīnlǐměi luóbo, literally “beautiful-at-heart radish”).

zh-m

(Chinese cuisine) The watermelon radish.


shinrimei radish

en-noun

shinrimei radish (plural shinrimei radishes)


Chinese green radish

Chinese green radish (plural Chinese green radishes)


roseheart radish

roseheart radish (plural roseheart radishes)

Partial calque of Mandarin 心裡美蘿蔔／心里美萝卜 (xīnlǐměi luóbo, “beautiful-at-heart radish”).

partial calque

(Chinese cuisine) Synonym of watermelon radish


asham

I’m looking at damn coconut drops and feel like asking if they have any dukunnu, asham or jackass corn.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 682:

(Caribbean, Jamaica) A dessert made from shelled and parched corn pounded into powder.


Sakurajima daikon

en-noun

Sakurajima daikon (plural Sakurajima daikons)

A romanization of the Japanese name 桜島大根 ("Cherry Island white radish"), named for its site of cultivation since at least the late 18th century.

(Japanese cuisine) Synonym of Sakurajima radish.


Sakurajima radish

Sakurajima radish (plural Sakurajima radishes)

A translation of Japanese 桜島大根 (Sakurajima daikon, "Cherry Island white radish"), named for its site of cultivation since at least the late 18th century.

(Japanese cuisine) A giant white radish cultivated in Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture.

Raphanus acanthiformis var. gigantissimus Nakai

Raphanus sativus var. hortensis f. gigantissimus Makino

Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus L.H. Bailey


pejibaye

Bactris gasipaes
Bactris gasipaes#Translingual

The edible fruit of the tropical peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), a single-seeded drupe; a peewah.


Sakurajima

From Japanese 桜島 (sakurajima, “Cherry Island”), from 桜 (sakura, “cherry tree, cherry blossom”) + 島 (shima, “island”). From its appearance like a cherry tree in bloom, when from a volcanic eruption, hot rock rains down onto the slopes, lighting up the island volcano.

bor

(placename) An asteroid in Main Belt, Solar System


corn oyster

(US) A fritter containing grated green Indian corn and butter, supposed to taste like oysters.


giant daikon

en-noun

giant daikon (plural giant daikons or giant daikon)

giant daikons (plural)
giant daikon (plural)

(Japanese cuisine) Synonym of Sakurajima radish


jumbo daikon

jumbo daikon (plural jumbo daikons or jumbo daikon)

jumbo daikons (plural)
jumbo daikon (plural)


tillage radish

tillage radish (plural tillage radishes)

(agriculture) Daikon, particularly when its large roots are left in a field through the winter to reduce soil compaction, rather than harvested for consumption.


fodder radish

(agriculture) The daikon, particularly when grown for animal fodder rather than for human consumption.


oilseed radish

oilseed radish (plural oilseed radishes)

(agriculture) Synonym of daikon, particularly when grown for its oil-bearing seeds or as a fallow crop, rather than for human consumption.


tail-pod radish

tail-pod radish (plural tail-pod radishes)

(Chinese cuisine) Synonym of rat-tail radish


serpent radish

serpent radish (plural serpent radishes)


rat-tail radish

rat-tail radish (plural rat-tail radishes)

A calque of the Mandarin Chinese name 鼠尾蘿蔔 (shǔwěi luóbó, "rat-tail radish").

A radish species or variety characterized by prominent trailing edible seedpods.

Raphanus sativus var. mougri H.W.J. Helm


common radish

Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus#Translingual

Raphanus sativus
Raphanus sativus#Translingual

A radish; in particular, of the European forms of the species Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus (syn. Raphanus sativus) having a relatively short red taproot.


European radish

European radish (plural European radishes)

Synonym of radish, particularly when distinguishing the European form with a relatively short red taproot from the East Asian daikon with its longer white one.


Chinese plum

Any of three species of East Asian trees and their fruit:

Eriobotrya japonica
Eriobotrya japonica#Translingual


Russet Burbank

A large potato with dark brown skin, few eyes, and dry, mealy white flesh.


sport pepper

Chicago-style hot dog
Chicago-style hot dog

A mild chili pepper, commonly pickled and used in Southern US cooking and on Chicago-style hot dogs.


Picardan

A white wine grape used mainly for the Châteauneuf-du-Pape blend.

A white wine made from this kind of grape.


corn parsley

Ridolfia segetum, an annual weed of the Mediterranean region.


turkey berry

"From the fact that these berries are much eaten by turkeys."

The wild eggplant, Solanum torvum, a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant.


mock orange

Choisya ternata (Mexican orange), an aromatic shrub native to North America.


yellow bugle

yellow bugle (countable and uncountable, plural yellow bugles)

Ajuga chamaepitys
Ajuga chamaepitys#Translingual

A flowering plant of species Ajuga chamaepitys, in the family Lamiaceae, native to Europe, North Africa, and the eastern Mediterranean.


rapunzel

Campanula rapunculus
Campanula rapunculus#Translingual

(plants, vegetable) A plant with leaves and crisp roots which have been used in salads, rampion, Campanula rapunculus.

Valerianella locusta
Valerianella locusta#Translingual

(plants, vegetable) A plant with leaves which are used in salads, corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta.


leaf vegetable

The leaf of a plant used as an edible vegetable, such as lettuce, spinach, or rocket.


race cloth

(historical or archaic) A cloth worn by a racehorse, having pockets to hold the weights prescribed.


fetticus

Earliest sown or planted — round beet, peas, forcing carrot, lettuce, radish, early cabbage, peppergrass, mustard, spinach, kohlrabi, turnip, scallion, early potato, fetticus.

1945, Maurice Grenville Kains, Five acres and independence: a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm:

(US) corn salad or mâche, Valerianella locusta, a plant whose leaves are used in salads.


mountain cranberry

mountain cranberry (plural mountain cranberries)

Mountain bearberry
mountain bearberry#English

Arctostaphylos alpina
Arctostaphylos alpina#Translingual

Mountain bearberry (Actous alpina (syn. Arctostaphylos alpina).


rattlesnake master

rattlesnake master (plural rattlesnake masters)

The plant was reputed to cure rattlesnake bites.

Manfreda virginica, a flowering plant related to agaves.


Guinea pepper

Aframomum melegueta
Aframomum melegueta#Translingual

Any of several not closely related black pepper-like spices from West Africa.

Aframomum melegueta (grains of paradise) from the ginger family (Zingiberaceae).


black snakeroot

black snakeroot (usually uncountable, plural black snakeroots)

Actaea racemosa
Actaea racemosa#Translingual


one-horse race

Since riding Harry Payne Whitney's Whiskery to victory in the Kentucky Derby, Jockey Linus ("Pony") McAtee has twice broken into the news in unconventional fashion. A fortnight ago, he won a one-horse race ("walkover") at Belmont Park, N. Y.

1927 June 13, “Sport: Again, McAtee”, in Time, retrieved 2014-07-26:

Sinister Minister . . . kept extending his lead and turned the stretch run into a one-horse race.

2006 April 16, Bill Finley, “Sinister Minister Joins Baffert's Derby Stable”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-07-26:

(horse racing, informal) A horse race in which a single horse takes such a considerable lead that the other horses are no longer contenders to win.


Alphonso mango

Probably named after Afonso de Albuquerque, 16th-century viceroy of Portuguese India. The cultivar was developed by Jesuits in Goa.

A type of Indian mango with golden-yellow skin and a rich, creamy texture.


pudding grass

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium#Translingual

Mentha pulegium, the European pennyroyal.


queen of the meadow

Eutrochium purpureum, sweet joe-pye weed.


tiger grass

tiger grass (countable and uncountable, plural tiger grasses)

Centella asiatica
Centella asiatica#Translingual


horsebalm

A strong-scented labiate plant (Collinsonia canadensis) with large leaves and yellowish flowers.


musk seed

musk seed (countable and uncountable, plural musk seeds)

Synonym of abelmosk: the plant or its aromatic seeds.


andiroba

andiroba (countable and uncountable, plural andirobas)

From Portuguese andiroba, from Old Tupi îandyroba (“bitter oil”).

Any of the South and Central American trees of the genus Carapa, especially Carapa guianensis.


beach pea

Lathyrus japonicus (sea pea, circumpolar pea, sea vetchling), a legume native to temperate coastal areas of Asia, Europe, and North and South America.


chamoe

any melon of species Cucumis melo, primarily grown in Korea, Japan, and northern China.


takuwan

Arrange on top of the rice any of the following: colored shrimp flakes, tuna seasoned with bottled teriyaki sauce, thin slices of takuwan, small cooked shrimp, […]

2000, Ann Kondo Corum, Ethnic Foods of Hawaiʻi, page 73:

단무지

pickled daikon radish — see also pickled daikon radish


chuchupate

(Southwestern US, Northern Mexico) A wild plant related to lovage, Ligusticum porteri, which is used in traditional medicine.


Chinese cherry

Chinese cherry (plural Chinese cherries)

Chinese flowering cherry (Prunus cyclamina)

Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese plum-cherry (Prunus humilis)

Chinese sour cherry (Prunus pseudocerasus)

Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese dwarf cherry (Prunus tomentosa)

Any of several species of genus Prunus:
Chinese bush cherry (Prunus tomentosa)


Chinese spinach

Any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables:

Ipomoea aquatica, water spinach, a semi-aquatic plant with hollow stems and long, lance-shaped leaves.

Ipomoea aquatica
Ipomoea aquatica#Translingual

Amaranthus dubius, often bearing red or purple marks

Amaranthus tricolor
Amaranthus tricolor#Translingual

Basella alba, Malabar spinach, with thick, succulent, heart-shaped leaves

Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherd's purse)

Capsella bursa-pastoris
Capsella bursa-pastoris#Translingual


nagaimo

nagaimo (countable and uncountable, plural nagaimo)

Borrowed from Japanese 長芋, literally "long yam".


yamaimo

Dioscorea japonica, an edible Japanese yam.


eleuthero

(informal) The shrub Eleutherococcus senticosus, used in traditional medicine.


sweet bursaria

A small tree or shrub of species Bursaria spinosa, in the family Pittosporaceae, of eastern and southern Australia.


murphy

From the common Irish name Murphy. Compare Donovan (“a potato”).

1857, Thomas Hughes., chapter VI, in Tom Brown's School Days:

To the chimney nook, / Having found admittance, / There I watch a pup / Playing with two kittens / (Playing round the fire, / Which of blazing turf is, / Roaring to the pot / Which bubbles with the murphies) […]

a. 1848, William Thackeray, "Peg of Limavaddy", in The Irish Sketch Book (1848), page 147


firwood

firwood (countable and uncountable, plural firwoods)

From Middle English *firwode, *firrewode, from Old English furhwudu, equivalent to fir + wood.

A wood largely populated with fir trees.


pudhina

Once we made Pudhina Chutney and left it on the grinding stone as we forgot to bring to ^([sic]) the dining table. Next morning we found a rodent quite dead near that stone. It is still a mystery if our Pudhina Chutney was the cause.

2003, Raj Dore, Tandoori Texan Tales, page 218:

In Hotel Vinayaka Muruga, one can order a dosa with none, any, some or all of coconut chutney, pudhina chutney, onion chutney, chilli sauce or red chilli powder. How many possible orders of a dosa are possible?

2009, T. Sengadir, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, page 165:


black cherry

black cherry (countable and uncountable, plural black cherries)

Prunus serotina
Prunus serotina#Translingual


American wild plum

American wild plum (countable and uncountable, plural American wild plums)

Prunus americana, native to eastern North America.


scoparone

An organic compound found in the Chinese herb Artemisia scoparia.


frost grape

frost grape (countable and uncountable, plural frost grapes)

Vitis vulpina
Vitis vulpina#Translingual


thousand-year egg

thousand-year egg (plural thousand-year eggs)


thousand-year-old egg

thousand-year-old egg (plural thousand-year-old eggs)


over medium

(US) Of an egg prepared as food, fried on both sides so as the whites are cooked, and the yolks are soft, but not runny.


ice-cream bean

Inga edulis, a sweet South American fruit used in making cachiri.


spotted bee balm

Monarda punctata, found in Quebec, Ontario, eastern and south-central United States, California, and northeastern Mexico.


musk mallow

musk mallow (countable and uncountable, plural musk mallows)

Abelmoschus moschatus
Abelmoschus moschatus#Translingual

Any of species Abelmoschus moschatus, abelmosk, native to India.


lyreleaf sage

A plant of the species Salvia lyrata, native to warm-temperate eastern North America.


damson plum

damson plum (countable and uncountable, plural damson plums)

A deciduous tree, Prunus insititia, native to Eurasia and related to the plum.

Syzygium cumini
Syzygium cumini#Translingual

Syzygium cumini, jambul, native to south Asia.

Chrysophyllum oliviforme, the satinleaf.


mangaba

The cajue, the jabuticaba, the araticu, and the mangaba fruits are common; also oranges, limes, bananas, pine-apples, and water-melons.

1821, James Henderson, A History of the Brazil, page 262:

Once the Counselor rose to his feet, the women of the Sacred Choir offered him a bowlful of goat's milk, a bit of bread, a dish of boiled cornmeal, and a basketful of mangabas.

1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 181:

The soft, thinskinned fruits of mangaba are gathered from contorted, often fireblackened trees on savannas.

The round, edible fruit of the tree Hancornia speciosa, native to parts of South America.


Irish potato

(US) A potato, distinguished from a sweet potato.


dillweed

dillweed (countable and uncountable, plural dillweeds)

Compound of dill + weed. From Old English dili (“dill”).

Vinegar and Pickles (kraut, cucumber, dillweed, tomato, cauliflower and onion).

1909, Missouri Railroad, Warehouse Commission, Annual Report, page 413:

Anethum graveolens
Anethum graveolens#Translingual

(uncountable) Dill, an aromatic herb used in cooking and medicine; Anethum graveolens.


hot pepper

hot pepper (countable and uncountable, plural hot peppers)

Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuum#Translingual

Capsicum frutescens
Capsicum frutescens#Translingual

Any of the plants that bear such fruit, especially the species Capsicum annuum and Capsicum frutescens and their numerous subspecies, varieties, or cultivars.


meon

From Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

Meum athamanticum
Meum athamanticum#Translingual


eggling

Presumably from *eggle (“to sell eggs”) + -ing. Compare English eggler (“seller of eggs”).

No eggler will allow eggs to be contaminated, because he wants to sell at the best price he can get […] If the House says it is, then in my opinion the majority of those people must get out of eggling […]

1938, Ireland. Oireachtas. Dáil, Parliamentary debates; official report, volume 73, page 734:

The death of Dobbin of old age had put an end to his master's eggling, for he had no capital with which to buy another horse.

1945, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise to Candleford:

(archaic) The sale of eggs; the trade of an eggler.


eggling

"Ode X" in 1834, Charles L. S. Jones, American Lyrics
One Lovling scarcely's fledg'd. One, yet,
An eggling still remains;
A third, from forth the broken shell,
In chirping notes, complains.

But now the little Other eggling was making loud peeping sounds. It was hungry.

A small, miniature, undersized, or underdeveloped egg.


almander

From Middle English almander, almaunder, from Old French almandier, a modification of amandier. See almond.


Antonovka

She looked at some apples, turned a few over, took a whiff of some others, but just couldn't make up her mind which to buy — it was as though her whole fate depended on it. She finally spied some golden ones with the fragrance of champagne — smooth round Antonovkas. And above them was the smiling, golden face of a Korean farmer.

2003, David Shraer-Petrov, Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 10:

It was easy: a quick jump over a low stone wall, a dash past a few rows of berry bushes, and there it was— the cursed tree with its absurd apples. Large poison-green spheres with deeply scalloped bottoms: Antonovkas. They were a good eating apple, but Jarmo had no interest in them.

2004, Sven A. Linholm, Orbits. Volume I : on Becoming a Man : a Novel, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:

With the appearance of scab races 6 and 7, major attention has been focused on other scab resistance factors, particularly the “Antonovka” selections and apple genotype R12740-7A (“Russian seedling”, RS), which are currently used in several apple-breeding programs.

2011, Chittaranjan Kole, Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 56:

An apple cultivar, noted for a strong acidic flavour and ability to sustain harsh winters.


makhorka

makhorka (usually uncountable, plural makhorkas)

From Russian махо́рка (maxórka). The Russian term took its name from the Dutch city of Amersfoort, known for its tobacco industry.

Carefully refolding the paper, he put it away and rolled himself a cigarette of powerful makhorka in the strip of newspaper.

1938, Seema Rynin Allan, Comrades and citizens, page 113:

More than three-quarters of the Soviet tobacco output consists of makhorka (Nicotiana rustica), a low-grade variety used in other European countries only as an insecticide because of its high nicotine content.

1949, Naum Jasny, The Socialized Agriculture of the U. S. S. R., page 585:

We were starving for tobacco—makhorka, actually, which, according to soldiers, helped survive cold, hunger and everyday toil. They gave us one pack of makhorka a month.

2003, David Victor Rosenstein, The Reason to Love This Country, page 36:

Nicotiana rustica
Nicotiana rustica#Translingual

(chiefly Russia) A coarse, strong type of tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), especially grown in Russia and Ukraine.


tulsi

tulsi (usually uncountable, plural tulsis)

Borrowed from Hindi तुलसी (tulsī), from Sanskrit तुलसी (tulasī).

It was a long, long time since I had been to Rohala and while I recalled some of the rooms and the courtyard with the fountain and the tulsi plant, I had no memories of the exterior of the house I was looking for.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 157:

Ocimum tenuiflorum
Ocimum tenuiflorum#Translingual


bogwort

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

Any of species Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or whortleberry plant).


hoodwort

A plant, Scutellaria galericulata, the common skullcap.


hillwort

Calamintha nepeta, a perennial herb in the mint family.


brotherwort

From Middle English brotherwort, from Old English brōþorwyrt; equivalent to brother + wort.


toothache tree

Aralia spinosa
Aralia spinosa#Translingual


horned melon

horned melon (countable and uncountable, plural horned melons)

A plant of the species Cucumis metulifer, bearing a cucumber-like fruit.

The fruit of the horned melon plant, having yellow-orange skin and lime green, jelly-like flesh with a tart taste, and texture similar to a cucumber.


aloe vera

aloe vera (countable and uncountable, plural aloe veras)

/əˌləʊ.i ˈvɛ.ɹə/

/əˌləʊ.i ˈvɪə.ɹə/

/ˌæ.ləʊ ˈvɛ.ɹə/

/ˌæ.ləʊ ˈvɪə.ɹə/

/ˈæ.loʊ ˈvɛ.ɹə/

/ˌæ.loʊ ˈvɪ.ɹə/

Learned borrowing from New Latin aloē vēra (“true aloe”).

lbor

Some other trees like the cactus and aloe veras, have other means of protection or feel no need for it and they grow much faster and easier that way.

2001, White Eagle, chapter 2, in The Medicine Way, page 71:

Another excellent cleanser and toner is aloe gel or fresh aloe vera cactus pulp. Cut off 1 inch of aloe vera rib, slit open and rub yellowish pulp directly on the skin.

2003, Patricia Bragg, Paul C Bragg, Apple Cider Vinegar Miracle Health System, page 22:

Further, scientists have learned that certain houseplants reduce pollutants, especially philodendrons (formaldehyde, benzene, and carbon monoxide), spider plants (carbon monoxide), aloe veras (formaldehyde), and gerbera daisies and chrysanthemums (benzene).

2005, Richard H. Pitcairn, Susan Hubble Pitcairn, Dr. Pitcairn's Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats, page 139:

Every morning and evening I drink half a tumbler of pure aloe vera jelly, which also strengthens my immune system. I believe that these generous portions of aloe vera above all have led to an improvement in my blood-test results after seven months of chemotherapy—in fact they are better than they were before.

2006, Wolfgang Heinemann, Surviving Brain Cancer: A Personal Memoir, page 147:

An orange cat rubbed against it and then threaded through the aloe veras, meowing lazily as Jessica opened the screen door.

2009, Gwendolyn Zepeda, Houston, We Have a Problema, unnumbered page:

In ayurveda, aloe vera is sometimes called kumari or "princess with the gel" or ghrit kumari ("ghee of the princess").[…]Alternatively, try this recipe created by the staff at Six Senses Spas. It is made with cooling lavender and aloe vera as well as nourishing milk.

2013, Judy Chapman, Ultimate Spa: Asia's Best Spas and Spa Treatments, page 196:

A plant of the species Aloe vera, grown as an ornamental, thought to have medicinal value; an extract, often a gel, made from the plant.

சோற்றுக்கற்றாழை

cōṟṟukkaṟṟāḻai


baby carrot

The baby carrots and the little rosebud beets which are being thinned out of the garden should be canned at the present time.

1916 September, T. J. Newbill, “Canning Vegetables by the Cold-pack Process”, in Monthly Bulletin, volume 4, number 6, Puyallup, Wash.: Western Washington Experiment Station, page 334:

Harvested as baby carrots, these varieties, planted early in the season, averaged 74 micrograms of carotene per gram of sample (range by varieties, 70 to 85 micrograms); corresponding samples harvested as mature carrots of at least 2 inches crown diameter averaged 180 micrograms per gram (range, 146 to 255).

1944 March, Georgian Adams, Sybil L. Smith, Experiment Station Research on the Vitamin Content and the Preservation of Foods (United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication; no. 536), Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 8:

A baby carrot is okay, but a carrot that is allowed to reach the peak of maturity is going to be sweeter and full of flavor—provided it hasn't become too old.

2015, Jacques Pépin, “Vegetables”, in Heart & Soul in the Kitchen, Boston, Mass.: Rux Martin Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 347:

A carrot harvested and sold when immature and of a small size.


green potato

A potato that has been exposed to sunlight so has turned green in colour and bitter in taste.


common barley

en-noun

common barley (countable and uncountable, plural common barleys)

Hordeum vulgare
Hordeum vulgare#Translingual

A plant of the species Hordeum vulgare, which yields the commercially important cereal grain barley.


bush tomato

Similarly the desert raisin, or bush tomato (Solanum centrale), used by Central Desert people for thousands of years, has become dependent on people for its propagation and spread.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 39:

(Australia) Any of various plants of the genus Solanum, growing in arid parts of Australia, and bearing tomato-like fruits.


blue corn

(Canada, US) A variety of corn with dark bluish grains.


Romanesco

Romanesco (countable and uncountable, plural Romanescos)

/ɹəʊ.məˈnɛs.kəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian romanesco (“of or pertaining to Rome”).

bor

To be honest, this hasn't been my Garden of Eden year. […] The lettuce turned bitter and bolted. The Green Comet broccoli was good, but my coveted Romanescos never headed up.

1995, Anne Raver, “Gandhi Gardening”, in Deep in the Green: An Exploration of Country Pleasures, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN:

The broccolo romanesco, once found only in Rome, is now being cultivated in Brittany and elsewhere, and people who had never heard of it a few years ago feel free to change its name to romanesco, as in, 'I bought a nice romanesco at the market; now what do I do with it?' (Actually for years Roman vegetable vendors called it broccolo romano and only romanesco recently.) […] Calling it simply romanesco is like calling French fries 'French.' This is serious because romanesco is needed to modify artichokes and zucchini, for which it indicates both local cultivation and a specific variety of vegetable – striated, firm zucchine romanesche and the large globe artichokes known as carciofi romaneschi.

2010, Maureen B. Fant, “The Italian Language of Food: Notes from a Translator”, in Richard Hosking, editor, Food and Language: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cooking 2009, Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, →ISBN, page 117:

This beautiful vegetable looks rather like a green cauliflower designed by a mathematician and has lime-green 'spiralled' curds. The curds are nutty and tasty, and romanesco is worth growing just for its good looks. You can use romanesco in the same ways that you would normally use cauliflower but the flavour is sweeter and they look far more impressive. I try to leave them in large pieces when serving them because they're so beautiful.

2010, Geoff Stebbings, Growing Your Own Fruit and Veg For Dummies, Chichester, W. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, pages 162–163:

You can use squash standbys such as zucchini and crookneck in this recipe, but it's even more beautiful with a mix of colors and shapes, from sunny yellow pattypans to ridged Romanescos to the perfectly round, aptly named eightball.

2014, Gabrielle Langholtz, “Raw Squash Salad with Radishes, Manchego, and Lemon Vinaigrette by Seamus Mullen, Tertulia”, in The New Greenmarket Cookbook: Recipes and Tips from Today's Finest Chefs & the Stories behind the Farms that Inspire Them, Boston, Mass.: Da Capo Press, →ISBN:

Romanesco was my gateway cauli and I've never stopped growing it. Not a variety as much as its own thing, Romanesco is a cauliflower to the French, a calabrese to the Italians. […] Visually, it may be the most remarkable thing you can grow: it is made up of lime-green mini-spirals that coil around themselves in fractal formation.

2015 January 26, Mark Diacono, “How to grow and cook cauliflower, 2015's trendiest veg: Tricky to grow, boring to boil ... so why is the outmoded cauliflower back at the culinary cutting edge? [print version: Cauliflower power, 24 January 2015, pp. G1 & G3]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):

Romanesco broccoli, a light-green edible flower bud of certain forms of Brassica oleracea var. botrytis, which is thus related to broccoli and cauliflower. Its form is a natural approximation of a fractal.

parsakukkakaali

cultivar of cabbage, Brassica oleracea var. broccolo


Romanesco

/ɹəʊ.məˈnɛs.kəʊ/

The dialect of the Italian language spoken in Rome.


negro yam

A kind of white-fleshed yam from Jamaica.


grape tomato

From grape + tomato. From the appearance of the tomato, small and elongated like a grape.

A type of small tomato similar in shape to a plum tomato but small like a cherry tomato.


peppadew

Pat the peppadews dry with paper towels. With a small spoon, fill the peppadews with goat cheese. Arrange the stuffed peppadews on the planks and drizzle with olive oil.

2010, Karen Adler, Judith Fertig, 25 Essentials: Techniques for Planking, page 43:

Capsicum baccatum
Capsicum baccatum#Translingual

A kind of sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum baccatum.


brierberry

/ˈbɹaɪə(ɹ)ˌbɛɹi/

a prickly bush found in the eastern United States, Rubus cuneifolius


eggceptional

en-adj

eggceptional (comparative more eggceptional, superlative most eggceptional)

more eggceptional (comparative)
most eggceptional (superlative)

In the contest, food service operators have the opportunity to win a $2,000 first prize, $1,000 second prize and $500 third prize in both commercial and non-commercial divisions for their "eggceptional" egg entrees.

1990, The Poultry Times, volume 37, page 40:

A veteran executive of such eggceptional breakfast-oriented chains as The Good Egg and First Watch, […]

1994 June 15, Steve Weiss, “It's a marvelous morning for a Moondance”, in Restaurants & Institutions:

An 'eggceptional' Easter Egg Hunt takes place around the Dock on April 23 and 24, from 1pm-3pm.

2011 April 19, “A Cracking Time for the Kids”, in Liverpool Echo:

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


Norfolk dumpling

en-noun

Norfolk dumpling (plural Norfolk dumplings)

A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk, England.

(humorous) A native or inhabitant of Norfolk.


perique

perique (countable and uncountable, plural periques)

A kind of tobacco with medium-sized leaf, small stem, and tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark in color. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.


peter pepper

An heirloom chili pepper grown in North America for its unusual penis-shaped fruits.


Columbus egg

Presumably in reference to the apocryphal story behind the egg of Columbus, since the eggs in this dish would have their ends crushed to allow them to stand upright like bowls.

A hard-boiled egg cut in half and filled with a mixture of its yolk with ham, cream, and nutmeg.


friar's omelette

friar's omelette (plural friars' omelettes)

A dish of beaten eggs fried with apples and breadcrumbs.


key-fruit

From February 23 to April 30 a flock of about one hundred visited the University campus daily, feeding principally upon the samara or key-fruits of the box-elder trees, also the seeds of sugar-maples, and leaf buds.

1910, Proceedings, volumes 11-12, Davenport Academy of Sciences, page 308:


petune

en-verb

petune (third-person singular simple present petunes, present participle petuning, simple past and past participle petuned)

petunes (present singular third-person)
petuning (participle present)
petuned (participle past)
petuned (past)

(dated, transitive) To spray (tobacco) with a liquid intended to produce flavour or aroma.


fruitling

Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart, though she was but a fruitling of my spear.


corn-cracker

Our summons was answered by its owner, a well-to-do, substantial, middle-aged planter, wearing the ordinary homespun of the district, but evidently of a station in life much above the common "corn-crackers" I had seen at the country meeting-house.

1862, James R. Gilmore, chapter 12, in Among the Pines, or, South in Secession Time:

(US, archaic, mildly derogatory) A lower-class white person in the southern US.


waddywood

en-noun

waddywood (countable and uncountable, plural waddywoods)

An Australian tree, Pittosporum bicolor.


Chaush

Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera#Translingual

(agriculture) A cultivar of Vitis vinifera (“wine grape”).


Chaouch

If abortion occurs even later, as in the cultivar 'Chaouch,' normal-size fruit develop containing hard empty seeds.

2008, Ronald S. Jackson, Wine science: principles and applications, 3rd edition, Food science and technology international series, Amsterdam, Boston: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 72:

(agriculture) A cultivar of Vitis vinifera (“common grape vine”).


flannel flower

The texture of the downy hairs is supposed to resemble flannel.

Actinotus helianthi, an Australian flowering plant whose stem, branches and leaves are pale grey and covered in downy hair.


pineberry

A white variety of strawberry with a pineapple flavour.


Sumatra leaf

A thin, elastic, uniformly light-coloured tobacco leaf, grown in Sumatra and extensively used for cigar wrappers.


wait-a-while

Originally after South African Dutch wacht-en-beetje; compare wait-a-bit.

In the new clearing by the creek where he had felled most of the big stuff, she attacked the landscape with anger, grubbing out the wait-a-while and bush-sword that was still guzzling round the stumps.

1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 136:

(Australia) Any of several thorny Australian vines or shrubs which impede passage, especially Acacia cuspidifolia of Western Australia, Smilax australis of eastern Australia and the Northern Territory, and lawyer vine.


zerumbet

From Medieval Latin zerumbet, zurumbet, from Arabic زُرُنْبَاد (zurunbād).

Zingiber zerumbet
Zingiber zerumbet#Translingual

(archaic) Zingiber zerumbet, a Javanese plant resembling ginger.


ground elder

Aegopodium podagraria
Aegopodium podagraria#Translingual

A perennial plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Eurasia; Aegopodium podagraria.


cavolo nero

/ˌkavələʊ ˈnɛːɹəʊ/

/ˌkɑvəloʊ ˈnɛɹoʊ/

Borrowed from Italian cavolo nero (literally “black cabbage”).

bor

Brassica oleracea var. acephala#Translingual

A cultivar of kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) with dark blue-green leaves, traditionally used in Tuscan cuisine.


Cuban oregano

en-noun

Cuban oregano (usually uncountable, plural Cuban oreganos)

A tropical succulent herb with a flavor similar to thyme or oregano, Plectranthus amboinicus (Coleus amboinicus or Coleus aromaticus in older references)


basil thyme

An aromatic herb, Clinopodium acinos (syn. Acinos arvensis)


Bristol onion

A species of onion, Allium sphaerocephalon, found only on the slopes of the Avon Gorge


Honeycrisp

From honey + crisp, originally a trademark.


biscuitroot

biscuitroot (countable and uncountable, plural biscuitroots)

A perennial member of the carrot family, canyonlands biscuitroot reproduces by seed and cloning. An individual biscuitroot clump includes many clones.

2013, David Williams, Naturalist's Guide to Canyon Country, page 49:

Any of a number of North American plants in the genus Lomatium with edible, starchy roots.


prickly ash

Any of a number of trees and shrubs in the genus Zanthoxylum containing Sichuan pepper and the American Midwest invasive species.


Hercules' club

Either of two not closely related trees with thorny bark:


buckberry

The huckleberry, Gaylussacia ursina, found in the Southern United States.


desert willow

Any of several species of willow that grow in desert regions

Other trees or shrubs that have willow-like leaves or weeping habit:


jatoba

jatoba (countable and uncountable, plural jatobas)

Hymenaea courbaril
Hymenaea courbaril#Translingual

Courbaril, a South American tree, Hymenaea courbaril


bai ji

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 白芨 (bái jī).

traditional Chinese medicine
traditional Chinese medicine

A Chinese orchid, Bletilla striata, the pseudobulbs of which are used in traditional Chinese medicine, but which is also widely grown for its ornamental flowers and foliage.


xinomavro

Greek Ξινόμαυρο (Xinómavro), literally "sour black".

And as for the Naoussa wines, the xinomavros on which the company built its name?

2009, Wine & spirits, Winestate Publications, →OCLC, page 92:

A red wine grape variety from Macedonia in Greece.


carnaroli

/ˌkɑːnəˈɹəʊlɪ/

/ˌkɑɹnəˈɹoʊli/

A medium-grain variety of rice from around Pavia, used especially in risottos.


flat peach

Flat peach of China—Cultivated more for the singularity of its form than for anything else. It is, however, well adapted for forcing in pots.

1855, Charles McIntosh, The Book of the Garden, volume 2, William Blackwood and Sons, page 508:

Prunus persica subsp. platycarpa#Translingual

A subspecies or variety of peach Prunus persica subsp. platycarpa, with white flesh and a flattish, round shape.


dhania

All can find a stall selling something familiar – and maybe something new to try, whether it’s yams or plantain, dhania or jellied eels.

2015 July 10, “Saving our city centres, one local market at a time”, in The Guardian:


pinecone ginger

pinecone ginger (usually uncountable, plural pinecone gingers)

Any of several species of ginger with pinecone-like flower heads, but especially the shampoo ginger (Zingiber zerumbet).


lesser galangal

Alpinia officinarum
Alpinia officinarum#Translingual

A plant (Alpinia officinarum) related to galangal (Alpinia galanga), with similar uses and flavor.


mango ginger

Curcuma amada, a plant related to turmeric, but with a mango-like flavor and aroma.


kahili ginger

A plant related to ginger, Hedychium gardnerianum, which is native to the Himalayas but widely grown elsewhere in warm climates due to its showy flowers, and which can be seriously invasive away from its native range.


torch ginger

torch ginger (countable and uncountable, plural torch gingers)

A Southeast Asian tropical plant related to ginger, of species Etlingera elatior (syn. Phaeomeria magnifica), with pink buds used as a seasoning and spectacular red flowers.


red ginger

red ginger (usually uncountable, plural red gingers)

A Malaysian plant related to ginger, if species Alpinia purpurata, grown for its showy red flower spikes.


myoga

Zingiber mioga
Zingiber mioga#Translingual

A Japanese type of ginger, Zingiber mioga, of which only the shoots and flower buds are used in cooking.


shell ginger

shell ginger (usually uncountable, plural shell gingers)

An East Asian plant related to ginger, Alpinia zerumbet, grown for its showy flowers, which are shell-pink on the outside and intensely orange and red on the inside.


Zweigelt

Zweigelt (countable and uncountable, plural Zweigelts)

A red wine grape of a variety developed and mostly grown in Austria.


fingerroot

Boesenbergia rotunda, a plant related to ginger, with finger-like roots used as a spice.


elephant garlic

A perennial plant related to leeks, Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum, having large cloves that can be substituted for garlic in cooking.


spoon sweet

Fruit preserved in sugar syrup in the eastern Mediterranean, often served in a spoon as a gesture of hospitality.


asparagus pea

A legume, Lotus tetragonolobus (synonym Tetragonolobus purpureus), with bright red flowers and edible seedpods that superficially resemble those of the winged bean.


garden chervil

Pliny the Elder commented in the first century A.D. that “chervil was a fine herb to comfort the cold stomach of the aged,” and Nicholas Culpeper similarly reports in seventeenth century that “the garden chervil doth moderately warm the stomach . . . it is good to provoke urine, or expel the stone in the kidneys, to send down women's courses and to help the pleurisy and prickling of the sides.”

2008, Jack Staub, quoting Nicholas Culpeper, 75 Exceptional Herbs for Your Garden, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 51:

Anthriscus cerefolium
Anthriscus cerefolium#Translingual

The umbelliferous plant Anthriscus cerefolium.

maustekirveli

Anthriscus cerefolium — see also chervil


black cumin

black cumin (countable and uncountable, plural black cumins)

Nigella sativa
Nigella sativa#Translingual

A spice plant with aromatic seeds (Nigella sativa).

Bunium bulbocastanum
Bunium bulbocastanum#Translingual

A spice plant related to cumin with dark seeds and an edible root (Bunium bulbocastanum).

Cuminum cyminum
Cuminum cyminum#Translingual

A cultivated variety of cumin (Cuminum cyminum).


corn chip

A snack food made from cornmeal fried in oil or baked, usually in the shape of a small noodle or scoop.


puffcorn

She tossed the pork rinds into the trash can and settled on some cheese puffcorn curls—not the healthiest things in the world but an improvement upon the former.

2006, Peyton Mathie, chapter 27, in Hayden's Corner, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 69:

Additional products include pretzels, regular and cheese puffcorn, cheese curls, corn chips, tortilla chips, pork rinds and salsa dip.

2010, Food & Beverage Market Place, Grey House Publishing, volume 1, 1127:

Suddenly, something Henry said caught my attention. “Where'd you get these boxes of puffcorn?” he asked. “This stuff has no taste at all!”

2012, Kris Vallotton, chapter 9, in Spirit Wars: Winning the Invisible Battle Against Sin and the Enemy, Chosen Books, →ISBN, page 137:

A corn snack, visually similar to popcorn, but made with corn meal and baked.


black caraway

black caraway (usually uncountable, plural black caraways)

A Middle-Eastern spice plant related to buttercups, Nigella sativa, with dark black, aromatic seeds.

cr̀njika (used in Serbia in the form cr̀nika for the holm oak)


ground pine

ground pine (countable and uncountable, plural ground pines)

Any of several plants, none of which are true pines:

Ajuga, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the mint family Lamiaceae, with most species native to Europe, Asia, and Africa; also, specifically:

Ajuga chamaepitys
Ajuga chamaepitys#Translingual

Ajuga chamaepitys (yellow bugle), native to Europe, the eastern part of the Mediterranean, and North Africa

Diphasiastrum complanatum (syn. Lycopodium complanatum) (northern running-pine), a species of clubmoss native to dry coniferous forests throughout the holarctic region.

Lycopodium, a genus of clubmosses in the family Lycopodiaceae, a family allied to the ferns, specifically:

Lycopodium obscurum (princess pine), native to eastern North America

Lycopodium clavatum
Lycopodium clavatum#Translingual

stag's-horn clubmoss
stag's-horn clubmoss

Lycopodium clavatum (stag's-horn clubmoss, running clubmoss)


bitter almond

Prunus amygdalus
Prunus amygdalus#Translingual

A tree of the species Prunus amygdalus (order Rosales).


jaceosidin

A pharmacologically flavone found in Artemisia species.


santonica

santonica (usually uncountable, plural santonicas)

From Latin santonica (adjective) (from Santonēs (a Celtic tribe of Aquitania)), most likely originally in a phrase such as herba santonica ("herb of the Santones").

An Asian plant (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), related to wormwood, which has been used since ancient times as a vermifuge due to its santonin content.


African wormwood

African wormwood (usually uncountable, plural African wormwoods)

An aromatic African plant, with many traditional medicinal uses, Artemisia afra


Great Basin sagebrush

Great Basin sagebrush (usually uncountable, plural Great Basin sagebrushes)

Artemisia tridentata
Artemisia tridentata#Translingual

A woody, pungently aromatic low shrub, Artemisia tridentata, very common in the Great Basin and other arid regions of western North America.


big sagebrush

big sagebrush (usually uncountable, plural big sagebrushes)

Great Basin sagebrush
Great Basin sagebrush

Great Basin sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)


annual wormwood

annual wormwood (usually uncountable, plural annual wormwoods)

Artemisia annua
Artemisia annua#Translingual

An Asian aromatic herb, widely naturalized, Artemisia annua, the source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin.


sweet wormwood

sweet wormwood (usually uncountable, plural sweet wormwoods)

A fragrant Asian herb, Artemisia annua, widely naturalized, the source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin


sagewort

sagewort (usually uncountable, plural sageworts)

Any of a number of perennial herbs in the genus Artemisia which have the aromatic gray or silver foliage of the sagebrushes, but are not shrubby enough to be termed brush.


sweet Annie

sweet Annie (usually uncountable, plural sweet Annies)

sweet + annual + -ie, modified in imitation of the name Annie

A fragrant Asian herb, widely naturalized, Artemisia annua, the source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin


manseng

But gros manseng’s sibling, petit manseng, is the real star, adding still more depth and intensity of tropical fruit to a wine such as Château de Cabidos Petit Manseng Sec Cuvée Comte Philippe 2009 (£15.95, South Downs Cellars ).

2015 August 16, David Williams, “Wines from the southwest of France”, in The Observer:

Any of several grape varieties and associated wines from southwest France


wildberry

wildberry (countable and uncountable, plural wildberries)

wildberry flavor (Popsicle Water Ice)

1992, Corinne T. Netzer, The Corinne T. Netzer 1992 Calorie Counter, page 72:

Spoon 2 tablespoons of the wildberry gelatin mixture into each of the cups of orange gelatin mixture.

2003, W. Park Kerr, Viva Margarita, page 31:

Wildberry Smoothie Large, 24 fl. oz.

2009, Alex A. Lluch, The Complete Calorie Fat & Carb Counter, page 53:

(uncountable) A combination of wild cherries and strawberries, raspberries, blackberries or other berries. Used in ice cream and other food products, as well as in cosmetics.


mursalski

Fortunately the Rhodope region is renowned for the longevity and good health of its inhabitants and, at the Triibria hotel, the owner, Nevse, brought out all the secrets of Rhodopean vitality: ironwort tea; mursalski, renowned for anti-inflammatory properties; then patatik, a potato-based Rhodopean favourite, filled with cheese and herbs collected on the mountain.

2015 August 22, Kevin Rushby, “The great east European road trip part three: hiking in Bulgaria”, in The Guardian:

The ironwood plant Sideritis scardica or the Bulgarian mountain tea made from it


mountain tea

mountain tea (countable and uncountable, plural mountain teas)


phlomis

Any of the genus Phlomis of herbaceous plants


bird's-eye maple

So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match.

1904, Carolyn Wells, “Shopping”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 58:

The two staterooms are similarly treated; the walls are panelled in bird's eye maple, with light mahogany mouldings, and the furniture is in sycamore and mahogany.

1947 January and February, “South African Royal Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 47:

More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.

1976, Angela Carter, “My Father's House”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 21:

Maple wood with small eye-like markings, valued for use in decorative woodwork.


Japanese spikenard

Japanese spikenard (plural Japanese spikenards)

An upright herbaceous perennial plant, Aralia cordata, growing up to 2 to 3 metres in height and native to Japan, Korea, and eastern China.


ajuga

Ajuga reptans
Ajuga reptans#Translingual

Any plant in the genus Ajuga, especially the ornamental ground cover Ajuga reptans.


earthapple

From earth + apple, modelled after German Erdapfel or Dutch aardappel; compare French pomme de terre.

Helianthus tuberosus
Helianthus tuberosus#Translingual

The Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus)


Enola bean

Named after the wife of the man who patented it in 1999.


canchalagua

canchalagua (usually uncountable, plural canchalaguas)

From Spanish canchalagua, from Mapudungun cachanlagua.

Any of several plants of the Americas similar to centaury, and formerly used like it for medicinal purposes, among them:

Schkuhria pinnata, a plant in the sunflower family native to South America and used medicinally


orthosiphon

Any herbaceous shrub of the genus Orthosiphon


cippolini

A modified diminutive form of Italian cipolla (“onion”).

Goulash, a local favorite, was brought up-to-date with seared grass-fed rib-eye, stewed cippolini onions and roasted cherry tomatoes.

2015 September 4, “In Minnesota’s Iron Range, Midwestern With a Modern Twist”, in New York Times:


Garganega

A variety of Italian white wine grape widely grown in the Veneto region.


hart's pennyroyal

An annual mint native to the western Mediterranean and the Azores, Mentha cervina, having a similar scent and other properties to pennyroyal.


pineapple mint

A variegated cultivar of apple mint, Mentha suaveolens.


Corsican mint

Corsican mint (usually uncountable, plural Corsican mints)

A low-growing, moss-like species of mint with a pennyroyal fragrance, Mentha requienii, native to Italy, Corsica and Sardinia, and which is grown as an ornamental ground cover and traditionally used in crème de menthe.


English lavender

English lavender (usually uncountable, plural English lavenders)

Lavandula angustifolia
Lavandula angustifolia#Translingual

Common lavender (Lavandula angustifolia).


satsumaimo

Borrowed from Japanese 薩(さつ)摩(ま)芋(いも) (Satsuma imo, “Satsuma potato”).

ja-r

She uses broccoli rabe instead of aka takana (spicy mustard greens), shops in the Caribbean markets of her Washington Heights neighborhood for batatas rather than Japanese satsumaimo (yellow sweet potatoes), and has learned to love the local mofongo, the Dominican version of mashed plantains with lots of garlic.

2007 December 26, Julia Moskin, “A Celebration of the New Year Ushers in a Bit of Japan”, in New York Times:


Kipfler

From German Kipfler or Bavarian Kipfler. Related to German and Bavarian Kipfl and Kipferl (“croissant”).

A small elongated variety of potato with yellow flesh.


shogaol

en-noun

shogaol (usually uncountable, plural shogaols)

From Japanese 生姜 (“ginger”) and suffix -ol.

(organic chemistry) A pungent constituent of ginger, similar in chemical structure to gingerol.


Szechuan lovage

Ligusticum striatum
Ligusticum striatum#Translingual

Ligusticum striatum (syn. Oreocome striata), chuanxiong.


Persian shallot

Persian shallot (plural Persian shallots)

Allium stipitatum, an Asian species of Allium native to central and southwestern Asia.


vermentino

It’s made from vermentino, a white grape that flourishes across the Mediterranean thanks to its ability to soak up heat without losing its acidic zip and bite, and here is rooted on the border of Liguria and Tuscany south of Genoa.

2015 October 25, David Williams, “Three wines to enjoy with Italian food”, in The Observer:


snuff bottle

A bottle used by the Chinese during the Qing dynasty to hold powdered tobacco.


Jet Star

She leaned back and pulled another tomato seedling from the flat. She set the plant in the newly dug hole and scooped soil over its thin white roots. She smiled. The Jet Stars were always the first to bloom and ripen.

1997, Mary McGarry Morris, Songs in Ordinary Time, page 104:

A variety of low-acidity, crack-resistant tomato.


Braeburn

Named after Braeburn Orchard, Nelson, New Zealand, where the variety was first developed.

A red crispy apple originating in New Zealand.


ipos

From Shasta ip'-haws (“Perideridia spp tubers”).

der

The tuber of any one of several edible species of Perideridia spp.


viniculturist

A person who practices viniculture; a viticulturist specifically involved in wine production.


charro bean

From Spanish charro (“cowboy”) (or English charro, from that Spanish word), due to the association of the beans and of charro bean soup with Mexican cowboys.

A pinto bean, as used in Mexican cooking, especially as used to make charro bean soup (a hearty, spicy, smoky soup flavoured with bacon).


osha

Unknown; presumably from a Native American language.

A perennial herb of species Ligusticum porteri, found in parts of the Rocky Mountains and northern Mexico.


cheesewood

en-noun

cheesewood (countable and uncountable, plural cheesewoods)

Nauclea orientalis (Leichhardt tree, yellow cheesewood, Canary cheesewood).


Chinese hackberry

Chinese hackberry (plural Chinese hackberries)

A tree, Celtis sinensis, of the family Cannabaceae and native to slopes in East Asia.


three sisters

A calque from an Iroquoian language, compare Mohawk áhsen nikontatenò:sen, Oneida áshʌnaɂtekutahnú·tele, and Onondaga ahsę́ naˀdegųdęhnų́·dæ·ˀ.
First attested in 1850 in the context of Iroquoian mythology (see quote below). Use in reference to the plants themselves first attested in the 1890s (see also below).

One beautiful idea relates to the corn, beans and squashes, all indigenous plants which are called three sisters as well as their life or supporters. The thought is a happy one, for they grow together, and were always important in Indian life.

[1892, William M. Beauchamp, “Iroquois Stories”, in The Iroquois Trail, or Footprints of the Six Nations, […] , Fayetteville: H. C. Beauchamp, →LCCN, page 128:

The three sisters work together as companion plants in many ways. Growing wide-spreading pumpkin vine among vertically oriented corn and beans saves space.

2012, Gail Damerow, The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing/Cooking/Carving, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

She gave me specifics on what to plant and the layout of the garden. Traditional Native American plants, heirloom varieties only, no GMOs allowed. Use the three sisters approach for planting corn, squash and beans, ilito onions would ring the interior of the fence and sunflowers would stand tall.

2012, Kathleen O’Dwyer, Breathing Blue: Giving my life to Spirit and Spirit to my life, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 151:

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

(US, Canada, agriculture, horticulture) The combination of maize (corn), pole beans (Phaseolus vulgaris or climbing beans, string beans, etc.), and squash (i.e. pumpkin), especially when planted together in intertwined plantings.


Lumper

Lumper (countable and uncountable, plural Lumpers)

“Over there I'm growing Lumper,” he tells us as we look across potato rows growing between poplar windbreaks.

2012, David Buchanan, Taste, Memory: Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors, and Why They Matter, →ISBN:

The Lumper, as they call this particular variety of pots, is a symbol of this Irish dilemma, for this is the infamous potato that failed in the 1840s and caused the great famine. The Lumper is therefore one of the most historic of all the heirloom potato varieties now preserved under the careful eye of historic museums and potato enthusiasts alike, myself included.

2013, William Woys Weaver, 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From, →ISBN, page 146:

In the 1840s, however, these two counties were among the worst affected when Ireland's potatoes -- those big floury Lumpers that sustained millions -- began to rot.

2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 39:

A variety of potato, best known as the variety that failed in the Irish potato famine.


satinflower

(South Africa) Plants in the genus Geissorhiza.

Any of various flowering plants:
Plants in the genus Geissorhiza.


water hemlock

water hemlock (countable and uncountable, plural water hemlocks)

A plant of any of the species in genus Cicuta, all highly poisonous and easily confused with other non-toxic forage plants.


bisnaga

bisnaga (countable and uncountable, plural bisnagas)

Visnaga daucoides
Visnaga daucoides#Translingual

A plant in the celery family (Visnaga daucoides, syn. Ammi visnaga) grown for its seeds, which have been used as an herbal medicine.


bhaigan

bhaigan (usually uncountable, plural bhaigans)

Admitting to stealing the vegetables, Mohammed said, “Boss ah tief the thing, but not me alone.” The bhaigans were valued $100.

2015 February 7, Azard Ali, “Mother put on a bond for stealing bhaigans”, in Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:

(India, Trinidad and Tobago, cooking) brinjal, eggplant, aubergine


wild thyme

wild thyme (countable and uncountable, plural wild thymes)

Thymus serpyllum
Thymus serpyllum#Translingual

A flowering plant in the mint family, of species Thymus serpyllum.

zhumbricë

species of flowering plant in the mint family


Chinese elder

A species of elderberry, Sambucus javanica, in the family Adoxaceae native to subtropical and tropical Asia.


common millet

common millet (usually uncountable, plural common millets)

Panicum miliaceum
Panicum miliaceum#Translingual

Synonym of proso millet (Panicum miliaceum)

Setaria italica
Setaria italica#Translingual

(less common, esp. in older literature) Synonym of foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

Cenchrus americanus
Cenchrus americanus#Translingual

Pennisetum glaucum
Pennisetum glaucum#Translingual

(less common, esp. in older literature) Synonym of pearl millet (Cenchrus americanus (syn. Pennisetum glaucum))


cocona

A tropical shrub, Solanum sessiliflorum, grown for its edible fruit.


obeche

obeche (countable and uncountable, plural obeches)

The wood of this tree; whitish yellow in colour and easy to process.


wild turmeric

A species of turmeric, Curcuma aromatica.


white sweet potato

white sweet potato (plural white sweet potatoes)

Ipomoea batatas
Ipomoea batatas#Translingual

A variety of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) that has a relatively white skin and flesh


tropical sweet potato

tropical sweet potato (plural tropical sweet potatoes)

white sweet potato
white sweet potato#English


jewel yam

A variety of moist-fleshed sweet potato.


Japanese mountain yam

Japanese mountain yam (plural Japanese mountain yams)

A Japanese species of yam, Dioscorea japonica


true yam

Any plant in the genus Dioscorea, or its tubers, so called to distinguish them from the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) varieties known as yams in the US, and from the New Zealand yam, Oxalis tuberosa .


New Zealand yam

New Zealand yam (usually uncountable, plural New Zealand yams)

(New Zealand) The oca, Oxalis tuberosa, a root vegetable introduced from South America.


Japanese ginger

Zingiber mioga
Zingiber mioga#Translingual


jasmine rice

jasmine rice (usually uncountable, plural jasmine rices)

A type of fragrant long-grain rice grown in Southeast Asia (Oryza sativa Indica Group).


kokama

I have heard that the Matabili have no name for this animal; but the Bechuana term is "Kokama."

1876, The Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, page 289:

The Oryx capensis of South Africa, or Gemsbok of the Dutch colonists, Kokama of the Bechuanas, is even more striking in its coloring.

1888, John Sterling Kingsley, Mammals, page 326:

The Gemsbok (Oryx capensis) is sometimes called the kokama, is nearly four feet in height, and has South Africa as its habitat.

Contrast of first and most recent regenerations of USDA Hopi kokoma and blue maize varieties conserved ex situ.

1999, Virginia D. Nazarea, Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/located Lives, →ISBN, page 140:

In addition, black (or purple) corn, known as kokoma, or Masau'u's corn, symbolically representing the direction of Above, is planted in May for the fall havest.

2011, Gary A. David, The Kivas of Heaven: Ancient Hopi Starlore, →ISBN:

Among just five families, Whiting found the following grops were still grown on a regular basis: yellow, red, blue, white, violet, pink, and speckled flour and flint corns; purple-backed kokama corn; sweet corn; shite and gray lima beans; white and blue string beans; grease beans; pole beans; white tepary beans; peanuts; watermelons; casaba melons; honeydew melons; muskmelons; banana squash; cushaw squash; Hubbard squash; cucumbers; onions; chilies; tomatoes; turnips; red dye amaranths; cabbages; peaches; pears; apricots; apples; grapes; and cherries.

2012, Gary Paul Nabhan, Where Our Food Comes From, →ISBN, page 133:

A variety of corn with purple kernels cultivated by the Hopi.

Kokoma or guinea grass (Rottboelia exaltata) is a heavy cropping plant which makes good silage.

1954, Stephen John Watson, Abstracts on the Conservation of Grass and Other Forage Crops Up to 1939:

However, 10 of the 18 places are filled by grass species: 2 Cynodon dactylon (couch grass), 2 Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass), 4 Echinochloa colona (awnless barnyard grass(, 5 Eleusine indica (crowsfoot grass), 6 Sorghum halepense (Johnson grass(, 7 Imperata cylindricata (blady grass), 11 Digitaria sanguinalis (summer grass), 13 Avena fatua (wild oat), 17 Paspalum conjugatum (sourgrass) and 18 Rottboellia cochinchinensis (kokoma grass).

2001, Charles A. Lamp, Stephen J. Forbes, J. W. Cade, Grasses of Temperate Australia: A Field Guide, page 17:

A variety of grass Rottboellia cochinchinensis.


knotroot

Collinsonia canadensis, a perennial medicinal herb in the mint family, Lamiaceae.

Stachys affinis, a perennial herbaceous plant, also in the mint family.


winner's circle

(horse racing) An enclosed area next to a racetrack where the winning horse and jockey are brought for photographs and awards.


yellow jasmine

yellow jasmine (countable and uncountable, plural yellow jasmines)

Italian yellow jasmine

Chrysojasminum humile, syn. Jasminum humile

Chrysojasminum humile (syn. Jasminum humile), native to Asia

Any of several species of plants with fragrant flowers resembling Jasminum humile

Gelsemium sempervirens, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Americas

Gelsemium sempervirens
Gelsemium sempervirens#Translingual

Pittosporum revolutum, native to Australia


bird's eye chili

bird's eye chili (plural bird's eye chilis)

Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuum#Translingual

A spicy chili pepper, a cultivar from the species Capsicum annuum, commonly found in Southeast Asia.


Italian tomato

Italian tomato (plural Italian tomatoes)

From Italian + tomato, from being a commonly encountered type of tomato in Italian cuisine.


tater tot

Appellativisation of the trademark Tater Tot.

(Canada, US) A small cylindrical piece of grated potato, generally deep-fried.


sweet maudlin

A European herb with fragrant leaves, sweet-Nancy, sweet yarrow (Achillea ageratum).


English oregano

The most common type of oregano, Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare, which grows wild in England.


wild marjoram

wild marjoram (usually uncountable, plural wild marjorams)

(UK) English oregano, Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare, which grows wild in the British Isles.


Mt. Pima oregano

An herb related to bee balm native to Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico, Monarda austromontana, which smells and tastes like oregano


lamb's ears

Stachys byzantina, an ornamental low-growing perennial related to betony with soft, silky hairs on the leaves which give it an attractive silvery-gray color.

oreille d’ours

ornamental plant with silky hairs on the leaves


Mexican oregano

Mexican oregano (usually uncountable, plural Mexican oreganos)

A Mexican and southwestern-US herb related to bee balm, Mt. Pima oregano, Monarda austromontana, which smells and tastes like oregano


Spanish oregano

A mediterranean herb similar to thyme, Thymbra capitata, which smells and tastes like oregano and which is an important source for oil of oregano.


mare's teat

Incidentally, a famous wine grape brought in from the Silk Road, still being used to make wine in the Northwest, is called mare's teat (perhaps because of its shape); because in Chinese the same word is used for both "teat" and "milk," it is sometimes incorrectly rendered in English as "kumiss grape."

1999, Catharina Y.W. Ang, Keshun Liu, Yao-Wen Huang, Asian Foods: Science and Technology, →ISBN, page 391:

They also carried the special mare's teat grapes from the oasis of Khocho (packed in ice in lead containers) and sold luxury goods from the west to the Chinese: Sassanian silverware from Persia which had a huge influence on Chinese silverwork, glass vessels and beads from Syria and Babylon, amber from the Baltic, Mediterranean coral, brass for Buddhist images, and purple woollen cloth from Rome.

2004, Frances Wood, The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia, →ISBN, page 67:

I partied at Aksu until they began to tire of me and started asking whether I wouldn't prefer to pay for my mare's teat grape wine.

2009, David Foster, Sons of the Rumour, →ISBN:

“I have not tasted mare's teat wine in more than two years,” he said. “I should be honoured to be your guest. Shall we invite the prefect to join us?”

'Excellent!' he exclaimed. 'The finest sweet wine, made from the best mare's teat grapes in Kocho - a valued ally in these troubled times.'

2011, Peter Ward, Dragon Horse, →ISBN, page 51:

A variety of wine grape from the Central Asian oases with distinctively shaped, brownish-purple fruit.


Trousseau

From French trousseau, diminutive of trousse (“bundle”), possibly from the fact that the grapes in each bunch appear tightly packed together.

Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera#Translingual

A variety of red wine grape of the species Vitis vinifera originating in eastern France which is often used in port wine; Bastardo.


corobane

Apparently originated c. 1971 as an error for cowbane.


cavendishia

(botany) Any of the genus Cavendishia of woody perennial plants.


kakdi

Considered one of the best mid-meal snack or finger food in summer, cucumber (kakdi, kheera) is known to flush out toxins from the body.

2016 June 17, “Beat dehydration with these vegetables”, in The Times of India:


bramberry

From Middle English bramber, brember, from Old English brēmber, from Proto-West Germanic *brāmabaʀi. Doublet of framboise. Cognate with German Brombeere. Related with bramble, brambleberry.

Ellagic acid is the most abundant phenolic compound in cloudberry and red bramberry (Häkkinen et al. 1999). In red berries the major flavonol group present is the anthocyanins.

2010, Kjell Nilsson, Marcus Sangster, Christos Gallis, Forests, Trees and Human Health:


southernwort

To prevent which, take Southernwort and Hellebore each a handful, bruife and boil'd 'em in two quarts of Cow's Milk; give half a pint at a time, and so wash them in Water wherein Holly has been boil'd, then let'em blood, and it will prevent the falling of the Hair, and Diseases attending it.

1710, James Lambert, The Countryman's Treasure:

Others commonly take three Ounces of the Seeds of Smallage, and three Ounces of Hylop, and as much Southernwort, and boil 'em well in Oil and Wine mingled together, and give the Horse to drink: Keep the Horse warm, and let him neither drink cold Water, nor eat dry dusty Hay.

1734, Gervase Markham, Markham's Master-piece:

Boil the bulbs (roots) of the white lilly in cream, and put it on the sore in form of a plaster. Southernwort has the same effect.

1850, Johann Georg Hohman, The Long Lost Friend, Or, Faithful & Christian Instructions Containing Wonderous and Well-tried Arts & Remedies, for Man as Well as Animals:


miracle berry

Certain plants and their fruit that make sour foods taste sweet, native to west Africa, of species:

Synsepalum dulcificum, which contain miraculin;


golden alexanders

golden alexanders (plural golden alexanders)


earthberry

From earth + berry. First attested in the 1800s, mostly in texts about or translated from German or other languages which use similar terms, of which it is likely a calque: German Erdbeere, Danish jordbær, etc. Compare Old English eorþberġe (“strawberry”, literally “earthberry”).

cog

The berries of the islands are sweet black currants, cranberries or goosh, strawberries and earthberries, together with the diddy, mountain, and malvina berries common to the Falkland Islands.

1869 July 1, Thomas Bridges, “Fireland and its people”, in The South American Missionary Magazine, volume III, page 114:

One time, the poor man had had no bread in the cupboard for a whole week, and the family lived on roots and stewed earthberries.

1882, Jeremiah Curtin, “The Round Stone (A Hungarian Folk-story)”, in St. Nicholas, volume 9:

Wild Strawberries (Fragaria virginiana): A member of the rose family, the strawberry also has the nickname earthberry. No one could mistake this plant's succulent red and juicy berries.

It didn't take long for the waves of heat to reach him, and with them came the scents of tempanuts, earthberries, and honey.

2012, Lena Horn, The Celestial Saga: Forgotten Fox:

One evening in Norway we had earthberries and cream just as Mr Haythornthwaite, the Englishman who visited our town when I was a child, would have had in Norway in the nine-teen-twenties.

2013, Desmond Hogan, Farewell to Prague:

The Portuguese word is also a mystery. In northern Europe it is simply the earth-berry due to the plant's habit of creeping along the ground.

2014, Denis Dunstone, Why Is an Apple a Pomme?:

(rare, nonstandard) A berry whose fruit lies upon the ground, in particular the strawberry (plant and fruit)


kaempferia

(botany) Any of the genus Kaempferia of plants in the ginger family, native to Asia.


ghost chili

Calque of Assamese ভোট-জলকীয়া (bhüt-zolokia, literally “Bhutanese chili”). The first element bhüt, meaning Bhutanese, was mistakenly confused for near-homonym ভূত (bhut) meaning ghost, thus producing the English (mis-)translation “ghost pepper”.


black rice

en-noun

black rice (usually uncountable, plural black rices)

A type of rice of the species Oryza sativa L. which is black or dark purple in colour and often glutinous.


Young dewberry

Young dewberry (plural Young dewberries)


Verdelho

A white wine grape grown throughout Portugal, especially on the island of Madeira.


white grape

Any variety of grape with a greenish or whitish color.

fehérszőlő

variety of grapes with a greenish or whitish color


Cavendish banana

Cavendish banana (plural Cavendish bananas)

Named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.

The Cavendish banana that is so popular in North America and Europe can be thought of as a lucky accident because it produces no pollen or seeds from which it can reproduce.

2005, Rachel Eagen, The Biography of Bananas, Crabtree Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 11:

Musa acuminata
Musa acuminata#Translingual

A banana of the triploid (AAA) cultivars of Musa acuminata.


sciacarello

A red wine grape variety grown in Corsica


Chinese goldthread

traditional Chinese medicine
traditional Chinese medicine

A herb, Coptis chinensis, used in traditional Chinese medicine.


currant tomato

currant tomato (plural currant tomatoes)

Solanum pimpinellifolium, a small, sweet wild tomato native to Ecuador and Peru.


yellow beet

A yellow variety of beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris var. lutea)


miller's grape

From the powdery white appearance of the leaves, as if covered in flour.

A hardy grape variety, cultivated in Burgundy for making wine.


haanepoot

A kind of large, fleshy South African grape.


grain of paradise

grain of paradise (plural grains of paradise)

Aframomum melegueta
Aframomum melegueta#Translingual

(rare, usually in the plural) A seed of Aframomum melegueta.


water parsnip

Any plant of the genus Sium, as the skirret.


oshac

The perennial herb Dorema ammoniacum, whose stem yields ammoniacum.


almond potato

A potato of an oval or almond-shaped variety, usually yellow or white, considered a delicacy in Norway and Sweden.


garden nightshade

Solanum nigrum
Solanum nigrum#Translingual

The black nightshade (Solanum nigrum), of Europe.


HTP

HTP (countable and uncountable, plural HTPs)

(biochemistry) Initialism of hydroxytryptophan.

high-test peroxide
high-test peroxide#English

(inorganic chemistry) Initialism of high-test peroxide.


canefruit

canefruit (countable and uncountable, plural canefruits)

Fruit grown on canes, such as raspberries and blackberries.


feterita

feterita (countable and uncountable, plural feteritas)


turn of foot

So myth number one is that horses who finish fast in the final furlong are horses to follow because they possess a turn of foot.

2004, Alan Potts, Against the Crowd, →ISBN, page 23:

He had a turn of foot that could see him outsprint many a staying horse over the 2400 metres, but that was his limit.

The squareish track was flat and suited horses with a turn of foot, which exactly described the two runners that Brewer was sending there on the day following Matt's return from Sedgefield.

2009, Lyndon Stacey, Murder in Mind, →ISBN, page 155:

Meanwhile Charlie Bell reported the stable's latest acquisition: a very good jumper but, as far as he could determine to date, 'without a great turn of foot'.

2014, Peter O'Sullevan, Calling The Horses: A Racing Autobiography, →ISBN:

(horse racing) The ability to accelerate quickly.

A good deal of a horse's efforts at acceleration are dissipated by the surface. On grass, a turn of foot is a powerful weapon. On dirt or the All-weather it counts for very little.

2002, Nick Mordin, Betting for a Living, →ISBN, page 51:

He had failed to match the lightening turn of foot of Desert Destination, but was now eating up the ground and was almost up-sides.

2003, Paddy Cummins, Green Lodge, →ISBN, page 94:

He felt that, as he put him in a gallop, the estimated speed they were travelling at was forty miles an hour and his turn of foot was breathtaking.

2013, B. J. Newing, The Rawlinson Family Story, →ISBN, page 102:

The winner then found an impressive and immediate turn of foot to accelerate away from Nichols Canyon after the second-last, and he was full value for his healthy winning margin at the line.

2016 December 29, Greg Wood, “Petit Mouchoir on course for Champion Hurdle after Leopardstown victory”, in The Guardian:

(horse racing) A burst of speed in a horse race.


red sanders

A tree of species Pterocarpus santalinus or its reddish heartwood, highly valued in woodworking, and used as a dye as well as a traditional herbal medicine.


Chinese mugwort

A herbaceous perennial plant from one of two species, Artemisia argyi or Artemisia verlotiorum, used in traditional Chinese medicine.


asparagus bean

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis
Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis

A bean of east Asia with long, edible pods, a yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis).


desert bean

(US) A wild plant of species Phaseolus filiformis, with edible beans, native to arid regions in northern Mexico and the southwestern US.


crowder pea

Generally said to be from crowd, due to some varieties having seeds crowded together in the pod, but possibly from crowdy (“porridge, gruel”)

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual

A type of cowpea, Vigna unguiculata, closely related to the black-eyed pea, but without the characteristic black spot.


common wheat

Triticum aestivum
Triticum aestivum#Translingual

Triticum aestivum, a widely cultivated wheat species.


fauxtato

/fəʊˈteɪtəʊ/

Blend of faux (“artificial, fake”) + potato.

blend

Cauliflower when used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.


King Edward

A hamlet in north Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ7157).


walshnut

From Middle English walshenote, welshnote, from Old English *wealischnutu, equivalent to walsh + nut. Compare walnut.


Manchurian apricot

en-noun

Manchurian apricot (plural Manchurian apricots)

Prunus mandshurica, a tree native to northeast China, Korea, and Manchuria, with white or pink flowers and edible yellowish fruit.


savagnin

Oxygen is an accomplice, not a foe, in the production of vin jaune, which is made of the savagnin grape, a Jura staple.

2009 September 23, Eric Asimov, “From Jura, Geeky but Versatile Wines”, in New York Times:

A variety of green grape from the Jura used to make white wine


falanghina

falanghina (countable and uncountable, plural falanghinas)

From Italian falanghina, possibly derived, through Neapolitan, from Latin phalanga (“pole for carrying things”, by extension “pole for sustaining grapevine”), from Ancient Greek φᾰ́λᾰγξ (phálanx, “line, rank”), Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“beam, plank”).

der

The light white wine produced with this type of grape.


gawf

A cheap red-skinned fruit, known to costermongers as "gawfs," is rubbed hard, to look bright and feel soft, and is mixed with apples of a superior description. "Gawfs are sweet and sour at once," I was told, "and fit for nothing but mixing."

1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, Of the Tricks of Costermongers, page 61:

From Little White-Lion-street, an appleman in his stuff-coat swings out wide, side-pockets loaded. Doing brisk business, he turns to his young helper. 'Hurry it up with them gawfs!' he hisses. The boy redoubles his efforts, frantically rubbing at the redskinned fruit to make it look brighter and feel softer.

2011, Ed Hillyer, The Clay Dreaming, Myriad Editions:

In the piazza business is already brisk and the air is thick with costers' cries: 'Three a penny, two shillins the lot'; 'Best quality leeks, just look at the shine on these beauties'; 'Fine apples, mister – 'apenny each – you won't get no gawfs 'ere.

2012, Lynn Shepherd, Tom-All-Alone's, Hachette UK:

(obsolete, London, slang) A cheap and low-quality apple that has been polished to deceptively appear of better quality.


occabot

He took gayer and more commodious apartments, to suit the taste of the lady, who could not think of any residence not including a complete suite of rooms; his gorg was therefore transformed into eniw, and his occabot into sweet scented sragic.

1826, George Wood, The Rambles of Redbury Rook, page 177:

To discover the kind of entertainment, a lad near me and my companion was asked "if there was any flash dancing." With a knowing wink the boy answered "Lots! show their legs and all, prime!" and immediately the boy followed up this information by a request for a "yennep" to get a "tib of occabot."

1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, Of the "Penny Gaff", page 41:


bobby bean

Similarly, the recent boom in imports of fine beans from Egypt has been based on pre-existing capabilities in growing the less sophisticated bobby beans.

2001, Oliver Morrissey, Igor Filatotchev, Globalisation and Trade, →ISBN:

For the UK market, it is important to note that fine beans are only acceptable up to a maximum of 7-5.5mm diameter. Thus, in this market, fine beans range from 6 to 7.5mm and bobby beans must be at least 8.5mm. Any product between 7.5 and 8.5mm is hard to sell.

2001, Commonwealth Secretariat, Guidelines for Exporters of Fruit and Vegetables to the European Markets, →ISBN:

Bobby beans are produced mostly in large plantations, as they are less labor-intensive than the extra fine beans, which tend to do better in smallholder farms due to high labor requirements.

2007, Julius Juma Okello, Clare Narrod, Devesh Roy, Food Safety Requirements in African Green Bean Exports and Their Impact on Small Farmers, page 4:

A French bean that is larger than 8mm in diameter, typically from a variety such as Nerina, Bronco, or Paulista.


fine bean

The double component is that both courgette and bean elements are twofold: yellow and green courgettes, cut into batons, oil-dressed and oven-roasted; waxy, kidney-curling vibrantly green broad beans, and darker green fine beans, both lightly boiled then refreshed to keep their verdant intensity.

2014, Nigella Lawson, Nigella Summer, →ISBN:

A French bean that is narrower than 7.5 to 9mm in diameter, typically from a species such as Monel, Garonnel, Amy, Masai, Longio, or Paulista.


Canaiolo

A red Italian wine grape, best known from Tuscany.


cow weed

From Middle English couwede, cowede, equivalent to cow + weed.


Pomeroy

en-proper noun

Pomeroy (countable and uncountable, plural Pomeroys)

Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland#English

A village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

A small city in Calhoun County, Iowa, United States.

A city, the county seat of Meigs County, Ohio, United States.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.

A city, the county seat of Garfield County, Washington, United States.


Kennebec

A small town, the county seat of Lyman County, South Dakota, United States.


California mugwort

en-noun

California mugwort (usually uncountable, plural California mugworts)

A fragrant perennial herb resembling mugwort native to western North America from Washington to northern Baja California, Artemisia douglasiana


Trollinger

Trollinger (countable and uncountable, plural Trollingers)

A grape variety grown predominantly in southern Germany.


horsetooth

What determined the success of his business was[…]a seven-field crop rotation, with wheat, horsetooth maize, sunflower, clover, and sainfoin following each other and giving a bigger and better crop from year to year[…].

1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 62:

A type of maize with kernels shaped like a horse's tooth, especially dent maize or a subtype.


black sage

black sage (usually uncountable, plural black sages)

(California) Any member of the species Salvia mellifera of aromatic sage native to California, which are an important nectar source for sage honey.

Wild sage (Cordia spp.), especially Cordia curassavica (syn. Cordia macrostachya)

Artemisia tridentata
Artemisia tridentata#Translingual

Certain sagebrushes (Artemisia arbuscula and Artemisia tridentata)


breakstone

breakstone (countable and uncountable, plural breakstones)

Any plant growing in stony places, especially in cracks in stone

Pimpinella saxifraga
Pimpinella saxifraga#Translingual


short head

Red Rum won by a short head.

(horse racing) A distance of less than the length of a horse's head


kamote tops

(Philippines, rare) The young leaves, leafstalks and stems of the sweet potato used as a vegetable.


camote tops

(Philippines) The young leaves, leafstalks and stems of the sweet potato used as a vegetable.


yakal

yakal (countable and uncountable, plural yakals)

(Philippines) Shorea astylosa; a tree endemic to the Philippines.


molave

molave (countable and uncountable, plural molaves)

From Spanish molave, from Tagalog mulawin.

(Philippines) A tree, either Vitex parviflora or Vitex cofassus in the family Lamiaceae.


tazziberry

Coined as an Australian trademark, from Tasmania berry.


ugniberry

ugniberry (countable and uncountable, plural ugniberries)

(countable) A shrub bearing that berry, of species Ugni molinae, related to the myrtle.


Guinea arrowroot

An ancient Caribbean and South American root crop, Goeppertia allouia (syn. Calathea allouia), with crisp, starchy tubers that taste somewhat like sweet corn.


apple banana

A type of small-fruited banana with a sweet, tangy flavor (Musa acuminata × Musa balbisiana).


red banana

A type of banana with short, plump red-skinned fruit having a soft texture and sweet flavor.


isodon

Any flowering plant of the genus Isodon.


camia

Hedychium coronarium
Hedychium coronarium#Translingual

Hedychium coronarium; a perennial flowering plant from the ginger family Zingiberaceae.


peach tree

Prunus persica
Prunus persica#Translingual

Prunus persica, a fruit tree of the genus Prunus, that bears peaches.


apricot tree

Prunus armeniaca
Prunus armeniaca#Translingual

A fruit tree which bears apricots; Prunus armeniaca.


half-length

(horse racing) Half the length of a horse.


kidney potato

Any of various kidney-shaped varieties of the common potato.


vinegarweed

From vinegar + weed, from the vinegary odour of its foliage.

Trichostema lanceolatum, an annual flowering herb of the mint family with an intensely pungent scent, native to western North America.


shisham

Dalbergia sissoo
Dalbergia sissoo#Translingual


cablish

In the Middle Ages there were regular arrangements for the disposal of cablish, wind-fallen wood, not only after exceptional storms like that in 1362.

2010, Oliver Rackham, chapter 8, in Woodlands (New Naturalist), London: Collins, page 165:

pannage

the mediaeval right access to acorns and beechmast for swine


gao lak

The economy now had a wide range of jobs, and society here welcomed a broad spectrum of ideas."........ get ready to sell gao lak/chestnuts for a living, maybe that's what he means.... :P

2003 June 4, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

I saw in the papers that there was this graduate frying "gao luk".

2004 February 3, soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):

In China, even buying gao lak or chestnuts from a street vendor is done via e-payment methods such as WeChat Pay and AliPay. This is one area Singapore is lagging behind, PM Lee noted.

2017 August 20, Lee Min Kok, “PM Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally speech: All you need to know in 3 minutes”, in The Straits Times:

Chestnuts roasted on wooden pushcarts. Gao lak probably fell out of fashion when littering laws came into effect and tossing the chestnut shells behind you as you walk would earn you a fine.

2015 April 14, Natalie Koh, “17 Nostalgic Street Snacks in Singapore that Bring Tears to Our Eyes”, in Tripzilla:Make it happen:

Kuali Baba: Today as I walked passed the gao lak seller, I almost thought I heard him chanting that.

2007 March 9, “'No more sweet potato boy – SgForums.com (Singapore)”, in SGFORUMS:


point-to-point

From point (“individual element in a larger whole; specific location or place; topic of discussion or debate”) + to + point.

(horse racing, also attributively) A kind of horse race involving a direct cross-country course with obstacles for hunting horses and amateur riders.


mao shan wang

/ˈmaʊ ʃʌn wʌŋ/

From Malay musang (“civet cat”), via Chinese 貓山王／猫山王 (māoshānwáng).

To make sure a seller isn't passing off a lesser durian as a Mao Shan Wang, look for prominent seams radiating from the base of the durian.

2008, July 13, Rebecca Lynn Tan, How to pick a durian, The Straits Times, page 4

Prized for its bright yellow, bittersweet flesh, Mao Shan Wang was a best-selling durian this year.

2008, 5 September, Tan Hsueh Yun, PURR-FECTLY YUMMY, The Straits Times, page 21

There are several different types of durian, with names such as Mao Shan Wang (Cat Mountain King), Hong Xia (Red Prawn), Mon Thong (Golden Pillow), or simple numbers such as D24, D1, D13 and D100.

2009, Marianne Rogerson, In Singapore: 60 Fabulous Adventures in the City, Times Printers Pte Ltd, page 157:

The coveted Mao Shan Wang, or Cat Mountain King, is a premium breed known for its creamy and sticky texture and bittersweet taste.

2010, 1 August, Kelvin Lim, The Durian Express, The Sunday Times, page 10

A popular variety like Mao Shan Wang (Musang King), which sold for as little as $12 per kg earlier this month, now costs at least $16 a kg.

2016, 30 August, Melissa Lin, Durian prices up as harvest peak ends, The Straits Times, page B4

Mr Shui, who has been in the business for more than 30 years, brings in about 10 durian varieties from both Johor and Penang – including the highly sought-after Mao Shan Wang.

2017, 9 July, Lee Si Xuan, Durian Doldrums, The Sunday Times, page A4

(Singapore, Malaysia) A premium variety of durian, characterized by its bright yellow flesh, bittersweet taste and creamy texture.


roastie

From roast + -ie. The Internet slang sense likens a (promiscuous) woman's vulva to the filling of a roast beef sandwich.

“Shut the fuck up roastie,” wrote anonymous Twitter users with anime images as their avatars.

2019, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, unnumbered page:

Defy me and you will regret it, roastie.

2019, S. J. Maher, Social Misconduct, page 151:

[…] and "Stacy" denotes an attractive "roastie," a promiscuous young woman.

2020, Anne Hendershott, The Politics of Envy, unnumbered page:

(vulgar, derogatory, incel slang) A woman, especially a promiscuous one.


camagon

camagon (countable and uncountable, plural camagons)

From Spanish camagón, from Cebuano kamagong.

Diospyros blancoi
Diospyros blancoi#Translingual

A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros blancoi) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies.


mummy nut

Nuts left over in trees after harvesting.