tater tot

Appellativisation of the trademark Tater Tot.

For sandwiches, you might sink your teeth into a Cape Cod reuben with crispy cod, Swiss and coleslaw with tater tots or sweet potato fries, fried chicken and waffle sandwich with maple aioli, or bacon jam burger — maple bourbon bacon jam, gorgonzola, fried egg, arugula, tomato.

2022 June 12, Lauren Daley, “How to eat through Blackstone Valley in a weekend”, in Boston Globe:

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


manaca

Not having the manaca with me we agreed to continue the quinine and morphine until next day, when I was to return and place him on that remedy.

1892, George S. Davis, The Pharmacology of the Newer Materia Medica:

A plant of species Brunfelsia uniflora, used in the treatment of gout and rheumatism.


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”.


morning-noon-and-night

The flowering plant Brunfelsia pauciflora.


kiss-me-quick

en-noun

kiss-me-quick (countable and uncountable, plural kiss-me-quicks)


yesterday-today-and-tomorrow

There are coppertone plants blooming pale pink, and wonderful yesterday-today-and-tommorrows which are super hardy to the South unless a rare cold wind gets to them.

2003, Katherine Casbeer, A Philosophy of Gardening, iUniverse:

The flowering plant Brunfelsia pauciflora, of Brazil.


poisonberry

Informal name of various plants with poisonous berries, most commonly nightshades:


currant tomato

currant tomato (plural currant tomatoes)

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


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.


King Edward

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


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:


Kennebec

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


kidney potato

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


roastie

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

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.


zombie's cucumber

After the baptism, or sometimes the next day, he or she is made to eat a paste containing a strong dose of a potent psychoactive drug, the zombi's cucumber, which brings on a state of disorientation and amnesia.

1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 187:

“Your soul will answer, you see. And they'll feed you the zombie's cucumber. You ain't got no choice but to eat it.”

2013, Arielle Crowell, Deadly Magnolia, page 210:

It seemed to him that he was […] surrendering all agency and becoming hers to command, as if she were a Haitian bokor and he at lunch at Bergdorf Goodman had been administered the so-called zombie's cucumber which confused his thought processes and made him her slave for life.

2017, Salman Rushdie, The Golden House, Jonathan Cape, published 2017, page 180:

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual

Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), as used in Haiti.


poor man's orchid

Schizanthus pinnatus, the butterfly flower


prattie

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

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

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


desert tomato

Lycium andersonii, a thorny shrub of the nightshade family with edible fruit, native to southwestern North America.


stripleaf

tobacco that has been stripped of the stalks before packing


cheelam

cheelam (countable and uncountable, plural cheelams)

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


heritage tomato

heritage tomato (plural heritage tomatoes)


lantern berry

A perennial plant (Luzuriaga parviflora) from New Zealand


poha

Physalis peruviana
Physalis peruviana#Translingual


sot-weed

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

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

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

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

The Sot-Weed Factor [title]

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

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

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

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

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


Datterini tomato

Datterini tomato (plural Datterini tomatoes)

Literally, “datelike tomato”. See Datterini.

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


'mater

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

'mater sandwich

(Southern US, Appalachia, informal) Contraction of tomato.


armadillo egg

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

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


trumpet flower

Any of several species of flowering plants with trumpet-like flowers

Tecoma stans (yellow bells, yellow trumpet flower, yellow elder)


scarlet eggplant

Ethiopian nightshade
Ethiopian nightshade#English

Synonym of Ethiopian nightshade (Solanum aethiopicum).


gilo

Borrowed from Portuguese giló, jiló, from Kimbundu njilu.

Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum)


susumber

susumber (countable and uncountable, plural susumbers)

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

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

1868, Edinburgh Medical Journal, page 400:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Solanum torvum
Solanum torvum#Translingual

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


gully bean

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

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

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

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

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

2016, Austin Mitchell, Uptown Lovers, →ISBN:

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


wild eggplant

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A turkey berry bush (Solanum torvum), or its edible fruit.


pea eggplant

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

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

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

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

A wild eggplant, of species Solanum torvum, or its fruit (susumber or turkey berries).


brightleaf

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

A variety of tobacco that grows well on infertile land.


dokha

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

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


Oriental tobacco

Nicotiana tabacum
Nicotiana tabacum#Translingual

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


Turkish tobacco

Oriental tobacco
Oriental tobacco#English


wild tobacco

Nicotiana rustica
Nicotiana rustica#Translingual

a very strong tobacco, of species Nicotiana rustica.


toluache

Any of various poisonous plants of the genus Datura.


Indian ginseng

Withania somnifera
Withania somnifera#Translingual

Synonym of ashwagandha (“the plant Withania somnifera”)


woolly nightshade

woolly nightshade (plural woolly nightshades)

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


yellow nightshade

yellow nightshade (plural yellow nightshades)

Solanum villosum
Solanum villosum#Translingual


red nightshade

Phytolacca americana
Phytolacca americana#Translingual

A plant of species Phytolacca americana syn. Phytolacca decandra


hairy nightshade

hairy nightshade (plural hairy nightshades)


small nightshade

small nightshade (plural small nightshades)


silverleaf nightshade

silverleaf nightshade (plural silverleaf nightshades)


buffalobur

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


buffalobur nightshade

buffalobur nightshade (plural buffalobur nightshades)


buffaloburr nightshade

buffaloburr nightshade (plural buffaloburr nightshades)

buffalobur nightshade
buffalobur nightshade#English

Alternative form of buffalobur nightshade


buffalo-bur nightshade

buffalo-bur nightshade (plural buffalo-bur nightshades)


tall nightshade

tall nightshade (plural tall nightshades)


green nightshade

green nightshade (plural green nightshades)


pepino melon

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


urfa biber

/ˈɜːfə ˌbibə/

/ˈʊəfə ˌbibɛə/

/ˈʊɹfə ˌbibɛɹ/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


creamy snuff

creamy snuff (countable and uncountable, plural creamy snuffs)

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


Chinese wolfberry

Chinese wolfberry (plural Chinese wolfberries)

Lycium barbarum
Lycium barbarum#Translingual

Either of two Chinese species of spiny shrub in the nightshade family, Lycium barbarum and Lycium chinense, and their edible fruits, which are used in East Asian traditional medicine.


Chinese boxthorn

Chinese boxthorn (plural Chinese boxthorns)

Chinese wolfberry
Chinese wolfberry#English


orange jessamine

orange jessamine (usually uncountable, plural orange jessamines)

Murraya paniculata
Murraya paniculata#Translingual

A south Asian shrub or small tree related to citrus, Murraya paniculata, grown for its evergreen foliage and fragrant flowers.


devil's candle

Deadly nightshade, henbane, hellebore and mandrakes were of evil reputation; the latter being called the "Devil's Candles," as they were supposed to shine out with baleful gleams upon dark nights.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:

The plant mandrake, especially when used in black magic.


garden egg

A plant or fruit of certain species of eggplant:

(West Africa) scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum).


brugmansia

Perhaps the best way of growing Brugmansias in moderate-sized houses is as standards in 12in. pots.

1877, The Country: A Journal of Rural Pursuits, volume VIII, Brugmansias for Conservatory Furnishing., page 537:

In the days when I was a young man, when we spoke of Brugmansias, we never thought of Datura, but now they are both placed in horticultural works under the latter name.

1924, Gardeners' Chronicle of America, page 276:

Fragrance after the sun goes down is the best reason to have a brugmansia. […] Brugmansias can be grown directly in ground beds or in large tubs. […] Let’s look at some specific varieties of brugmansias.

2000, Shane Smith, “Chapter 8: A Closer Look at the Plants”, in Greenhouse Gardener’s Companion: Growing Food and Flowers in Your Greenhouse or Sunspace, revised and expanded edition, Golden, Colorado: Fulcrum Publishing, →ISBN, Ornamental Flowering Crops: Angel’s-trumpet (Datura / Brugmansia spp.), page 177:

After seeing a brugmansia in your e-newsletter and reading the piece about tropical plants, I was compelled to write to tell you what happened to our family last spring. I had pruned my 2-year-old brugmansia, which we know is poisonous to people and animals, into a tree form so that we didn’t have to worry about cats and children eating the leaves. […] On the porch floor, there was a dried brugmansia leaf with a hole nibbled in it. Racing the cat to the vet would prove futile, and a long 24 hours later, the cat died from the effect of the atropine poison common to brugmansias and daturas.

2005, Fine Gardening, Poisonous plants and pets, page 216:

In a warm space without good air circulation, conditions will also be ripe for the development of mildew or for the proliferation of pests like aphids. By the same token, keeping a brugmansia healthy in a cool, sunny space might not be so difficult — but try it in a warm room and you’ll be inviting an infestation of whiteflies. […] Some salvias, brugmansias, bananas (Musa), lemon verbena (Aloysia), Sinningia, and Bouvardia ternifolia can overwinter in the basement just in their pots. […] In the case of brugmansias, you must plan ahead in this respect. Because of their large size and slow growth rate, we’ve found that the best time to take brugmansia cuttings is in the early part of the summer for the following year. […] Brugmansia (angel’s trumpet, brugmansia) / Hardy to at least 35°F (2°C)

2014, Alice McGowan, Brian McGowan, edited by Sarah Guare and Carleen Madigan, Saving Container Plants: Overwintering Techniques for Keeping Tender Plants Alive Year after Year, Storey Publishing, →ISBN, pages 7, 13, 84:

A flowering plant of the genus Brugmansia, native to subtropical regions of South America.


nipplefruit

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

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

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


topato

Synonym of pomato (“potato–tomato hybrid”)


french-fried potatoes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

French-fried potatoes
French-fried potatoes#English

Alternative letter-case form of French-fried potatoes


snuff-horn

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

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

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


poroporo

(New Zealand) The plant Solanum aviculare.


Irish apricot

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

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


hog potato

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


newy

Lets go to Newy for a skate


felonwood

Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara#Translingual

Synonym of felonwort (“Solanum dulcamara”)


Brazil cherry

Synonym of Cape gooseberry (“Physalis peruviana”)


white henbane

From Middle English white henbane, a calque of Latin iusquamus albus.

The thirde whiche hath white flowers, is called Hyoſcyamus albus, that is to ſay, White Henbane. / The Choiſe. / The white Henbane is beſt to be vſed in medicine.[…]The ſeede of the white Henbane, and the leaues are cold in the third degree.

1578, Rembert Dodoens, translated by Henry Lyte, A Nievve Herball, or Historie of Plantes: Wherin is Contayned the VVhole Discourse and Perfect Description of All Sortes of Herbes and Plantes: Their Diuers ⁊ Sundry Kindes: […], London: Gerard Dewes, page 450:

The Henbanes, notably Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) and White Henbane (H. albus), have long been utilised as magic, medicinal and hallucinogenic herbs in Europe and the Far East.

2013, Cheryll J. Williams, “Ancient Drugs in a Modern World”, in Medicinal Plants in Australia, volume 4 (An Antipodean Apothecary), Rosenberg, →ISBN, section “The Black Henbane (Hyoscyamus niger)”, page 348:

In his book, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants, German author Christian ratsch claims that white henbane (Hyoscyamus albus), whose flowers do not have the purple veining of black henbane, was the plant used in ancient southern Europe for prophecy.[…]if you want to try growing it, white henbane tends to be on the short side, about two feet tall.

2017, Harold Roth, “Henbane”, in The Witching Herbs: 13 Essential Plants and Herbs for Your Magical Garden, Weiser Books, pages 208 and 214:

Hyoscyamus albus
Hyoscyamus albus#Translingual


desert-thorn

Any desert-growing member of the genus Lycium


desert raisin

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

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


Carpenter's groundcherry

Carpenter's groundcherry (plural Carpenter's groundcherries)

Calliphysalis carpenteri, a perennial plant in the family Solanaceae.


cheese fries

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


straight cigarette

straight cigarette (plural straight cigarettes)

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

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

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


violet bloom

The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).


bugweed

woolly nightshade
woolly nightshade#English


shoo-fly plant

A plant related to nightshade, Nicandra physalodes


Madame Jeanette

Madame Jeanette (plural Madame Jeanettes)

Capsicum chinense
Capsicum chinense#Translingual

A chili pepper (Capsicum chinense) cultivar from Suriname.


Russian blue potato

Russian blue potato (countable and uncountable, plural Russian blue potatoes)

A deep purple cultivar of potato believed to have originated in Russia.