finocchio

finocchio (plural finocchi or finocchios)

/fɪˈnəʊkɪəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian finocchio (“fennel; (derogatory) male homosexual”). Doublet of fennel.

bor

Finocchios are shoots of the fennel, an odoriferous plant of the Umbelliferae family.

1974, Ali-Bab (author) and Elizabeth Benson (translator), Encyclopedia of Practical Gastronomy, page 41

For the first time, finocchio, or Florence fennel, has performed for me as it should and has swollen out into bulbous protrusions at the base of its leaf stalks.

1981, Country Life, volume 170, page 1,057:

The strong anise odor of finocchio repels many insects from other vegetables.

1983, Theodore James, The Gourmet Garden, page 44:

Also called Florence fennel, finocchio has long been a popular vegetable in Europe but has somehow fallen out of circulation from most American gardens.

1994, B. Rosie Lerner, Beverly S. Netzhammer, Possum in the Pawpaw Tree: A Seasonal Guide to Midwestern Gardening, page 43:

A fennel cultivar with a bulb-like structure at its base, used as a vegetable; Florence fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum).


polenta

en-noun

polenta (countable and uncountable, plural polentas)

Any of various types and consistencies of a starchy accompaniment to a meal made from coarse maize-meal porridge, sometimes fried or grilled.


scorzonera

Scorzonera hispanica
Scorzonera hispanica#Translingual

A herb from southern Europe (Pseudopodospermum hispanicum, syn. Scorzonera hispanica), having yellow flowers and edible carrot-shaped roots.


black salsify

black salsify (usually uncountable, plural black salsifies)

Black salsify is lumped in as a member of the salsify-type vegetable family even though it is a different genus and species due to similarities in its flavor and textural profile.

2008, Dolf De Rovira, Dictionary of Flavors, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 150:

A perennial member of the sunflower family (Asteraceae), cultivated as a root vegetable (Pseudopodospermum hispanicum, syn. Scorzonera hispanica).


purslane

purslane (usually uncountable, plural purslanes)

From Old French porcelaine, probably an alteration of Latin porcilaca (“purslane”) (related to portulaca (“purslane”)) to assimilate it with porcelaine (“porcelain”).

Other similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales


jicama

From Mexican Spanish jícama, from Nahuatl xīcama.

The edible root of the yam bean, Pachyrhizus erosus, used in salads in Central America and as a snack in Mexico.


celeriac

celeriac (countable and uncountable, plural celeriacs)

/səˈlɛəɹiæk/

/səˈlɪəɹiæk/

Apium graveolens
Apium graveolens#Translingual

A form of celery, Apium graveolens, having an aromatic taproot eaten as a vegetable.


corn salad

corn salad (countable and uncountable, plural corn salads)

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From corn + salad; plant so called from being commonly found as a weed in grain fields.

Valerianella locusta
Valerianella locusta#Translingual

Any of the small plants in genus Valerianella, used in salads and as a herb, especially Valerianella locusta.


nectarine

en-adj

nectarine (comparative more nectarine, superlative most nectarine)

more nectarine (comparative)
most nectarine (superlative)

[…] to their supper-fruits they fell,
Nectarine fruits which the compliant boughs
Yielded them, side-long as they sat recline
On the soft downy bank damasked with flowers […]

1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV), Book 4, lines 329-332:


nightshade

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From Middle English nyȝtschade, niȝteschode, nyght shade, from Old English nihtsċada, corresponding to night + shade. Compare German Nachtschatten.

tall nightshade

Solanum giganteum; Solanum chenopodioides

Any of the poisonous plants belonging to the genus Solanum, especially black nightshade or woody nightshade.


red currant

/ˈɹɛdˌkʌɹənt/

/ˈɹɛdˌkɜɹənt/

/ˈɹɛdˌkʌɹənt/

And a hint of still waters, a stream, a brook, a rivulet, meandering with flashes of brilliance through the lush dense greenery, among shadowy plants that might have been blackberries or redcurrants, although what redcurrants and blackberries might be Yoel had not the faintest notion, and even the names themselves he only knew from books.

1989, Amos Oz, To Know A Woman, page 109:

Cultivated redcurrants are most closely related to Ribes rubrum, which like blackcurrants grow in northern Europe and northern Asia, although several other species have had a hand in the development of particular varieties; whitecurrants, for their part, are simply redcurrants with albino genes. Despite their similarities, the histories of blackcurrants and redcurrants in Britain are surprisingly distinct.

2009, Christopher Stocks, Forgotten Fruits: The stories behind Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables, page 93:

Blackcurrants and redcurrants, gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb grow amongst viburnums, hollyhocks, sweet williams, forsythia, and a medlar.

1989, Mirabel Osler, A Gentle Plea for Chaos, published 2011, page 173:

A deciduous shrub, Ribes rubrum, native to western Europe; any of certain cultivars of the shrub.


bonza

A reddish apple originating in Australia.


butternut squash

en-noun

butternut squash (countable and uncountable, plural butternut squashes)

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Cucurbita moschata
Cucurbita moschata#Translingual

A vase-shaped orange-fleshed hard winter squash, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.


woundwort

woundwort (countable and uncountable, plural woundworts)

Berufskraut

any of several plants formerly used for wounds

Any of several plants formerly used in poultices for wounds.

Any of several plants of the genus Stachys

Achillea millefolium
Achillea millefolium#Translingual

soldier's woundwort
soldier's woundwort#English

Achillea millefolium (soldier's woundwort)

Solidago virgaurea (European golden-rod)

Bellis perennis
Bellis perennis#Translingual

Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris#Translingual


catnip

catnip (countable and uncountable, plural catnips)

Audio (US)

Compound of cat + nep, nip (“catnip”), from Middle English nep, from Old English nepte, from Proto-West Germanic *nepetā, from Latin nepeta (“catnip”). Compare earlier catmint (“catnip”), from Middle English catt mynte, which very likely existed in Old English (as *cattes minte) as well.

Any of the about 250 species of flowering plant of the genus Nepeta, family Lamiaceae, certain of which are said to have medicinal qualities.


cornstalk

He's a bloody cornstalk.

(Australia, slang, derogatory) a non-indigenous native of New South Wales.


Baldwin

en-proper noun

Baldwin (countable and uncountable, plural Baldwins)

From Proto-West Germanic *Balþawini, from Proto-Germanic *Balþawiniz (“bold friend”).

der

Baltimore County
Baltimore County#English

An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.

An unincorporated community in Burleigh County, North Dakota.


cannellini bean

en-noun

cannellini bean (plural cannellini beans)


cannellini

They are cannellini beans, not cannelloni beans.

2007 January 24, “Correction: An Italian Spot, Larded With Drive”, in New York Times:

A type of white bean used in Italian cooking.


kohlrabi

kohlrabi (countable and uncountable, plural kohlrabis or kohlrabies)

Borrowed from German Kohlrabi, from Kohl (“cabbage”) + Italian rape (“turnips”), from cavoli rape, the plural of cavolo rapa (“cole rape”).

Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes, a variety of the cabbage, having a turnip-shaped edible stem.


red cabbage

red cabbage (usually uncountable, plural red cabbages)

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(countable, uncountable) A form of cabbage having red leaves, Brassica oleracea var. capitata f. rubra .


catawba

From Catawba catawba (“catalpa tree”). See also catalpa.

Vitis labrusca
Vitis labrusca#Translingual

The catawba grape, a cultivar of North American Vitis labrusca.


cayenne

cayenne (countable and uncountable, plural cayennes)

Coordinate term: jalapeño

What's the difference between a cayenne and a jalapeno?

His barbeque sauce could use a hint of cayenne to heat it up a bit.


honey plant

I have no doubt that where I live one thousand hives will provide for themselves and gather surplus honey wherever one can. It is not with honey plants, as with other pasturage, which once eaten off takes time and favoring showers to cause a new growth.

1863 September 12, Ellen S. Tupper, “Essay on Bees—1st Premium”, in Tenth Report of the Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, to the Governor of the State, for the Year 1863, Des Moines, Ia.: F. W. Palmer, state printer, published 1864, →OCLC, page 228:

[T]he only reason that buckwheat is considered valuable as a honey plant, is because it blooms generally in dry weather late in the fall, when the difference in the temperature between two o'clock in the day and two o'clock at night is sufficient to favor the production of honey.

1869 September, A. W. Harlan, “Honey Dews in the West and Southwest [From the Keokuk ‘Gate City.’]”, in Samuel Wagner, editor, American Bee Journal, volume V, number 3, Washington, D.C.: Samuel Wagner, →OCLC, page 47, column 1:

There was also another good honey plant that had lately come into notice in his section. The same described in the Bee Journal by him, that comes up in the fall and blooms the next spring, that was the best of honey plants for early spring.

1872, “Proceedings”, in Transactions of the North American Bee Keepers’ Society, at their First Annual Session Held at the City of Cleveland, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, December 6–8, 1872, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indianapolis Printing and Publishing House, →OCLC, topic no. 6 (What are the Best Honey Producing Plants?), page 13, column 1:

The lack of literature concerning the tulip-tree as a honey-plant is a serious one and the chief object of this bulletin is to make up this deficiency.

1922 January, E[verett] F[ranklin] Phillips, George S. Demuth, “Peculiarities of the Region”, in Beekeeping in the Tulip-tree Region (Farmers’ Bulletin; no. 1222), Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, →OCLC, page 9:

But of late years plows and sheep have made sad havoc in these glorious pastures, destroying tens of thousands of the flowery acres like a fire, and banishing many species of the best honey-plants to rocky cliffs and fence-corners, […]

a. 1914, John Muir, “The Mountains of California”, in Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth; My First Summer in the Sierra; The Mountains of California; Stickeen; Selected Essays (Library of America; 92), New York, N.Y.: Library of America, published 1997, →ISBN, chapter XVI (The Bee-pastures), page 523:

HONEYSUCKLE—Lonicera spp.: […] This introduced, escaped shrub is strikingly overlooked as a major honey plant.

2009, Kim Flottum, “Some of the Better Honey Plants to Know”, in The Backyard Beekeeper’s Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking with Natural Honeys (Backyard Series), Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, Quayside Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 48:

(beekeeping) Any plant from which bees usually collect nectar, pollen, or both for making honey.

hunajakasvi

any plant from which bees usually collect nectar, pollen, or both for making honey

HOYA CORIACEA. Thick leaved Hoya. […] Those of our readers unacquainted with the genus will, perhaps, understand us better by saying, that this is a kind of honey plant, familiar to most persons, with its waxy white flowers, and often grown in windows. The Hoya coriacea appears to be a thicker foliaged plant, stronger in its stem, and perhaps less inclined to become a twiner or creeper than the common honey plant.

1839 May, “Notices of New Plants”, in Robert Marnock, editor, The Floricultural Magazine, and Miscellany of Gardening, volume III, number XXXVI, London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., […]; Sheffield, South Yorkshire: G. Ridge, page 286:

Hoya carnosa (Thick-leaved).—Foliage large, flowers in large drooping corymbs; they are of a pinkish-white colour, and contain, or rather yield, drops of pure sweet honey; hence this fine old plant is known as the Honey plant.

1855 June 5, T. Appleby, “Plants for Baskets”, in George W. Johnson, Robert Hogg, editors, The Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman’s Companion: A Journal of Horticulture, Rural and Domestic Economy, Botany, and Natural History, volume XIV, number CCCXLIX, London: Published for the proprietors, […], →OCLC, page 161, column 2:

The flowers [of the Hoya carnosa] are produced in umbels on short stems sometimes as many as a dozen on a stem; in the centre of each flower there is, as it were, a drop of thick liquid distilled, which if tasted has the luscious flavor of honey; hence the plant in England and Scotland goes under the name of Honey Plant; but quite the reverse in this country, where it is called Wax Plant.

1875 August, Roderick Campbell, “Hoya”, in Thomas Meehan, editor, The Gardener’s Monthly: Devoted to Horticulture, Arboriculture & Rural Affairs, volume XVII (Old Series; volume VIII (New Series)), number 8, Philadelphia, Pa.: Charles H. Marot, publisher, […], page 234, column 1:

Hoya carnosa (honey-plant). Although this is a hot-house plant it can be grown in the window of the sitting-room, and I have grown and flowered it exceedingly well in an ordinary greenhouse; […]

1876, Samuel Wood, “Division III. The Flower Garden.”, in A Plain Guide to Good Gardening: Or How to Grow Vegetables, Fruits, and Flowers: […], 2nd edition, London: Crosby Lockwood & Co., […], →OCLC, book I (Kitchen, Fruit, and Flower Gardens), section 6 (Window Gardening), page 130:

Hoya imperialis […] Honey plant.

2006, “House Plants”, in Dennis R. Pittenger, editor, Retail Garden Center Manual (University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Publication; 3492), Oakland, Calif.: University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources Communication Services, →ISBN, table 4.3 (Plants for Specific Indoor Gardening Uses), page 66:

(botany) The name of a number of not closely related plants.

A plant of the genus Hoya, especially the porcelainflower or waxplant (Hoya carnosa) from the tendency for excess nectar to drip from its flowers.

Honey-plant [Melissa officinalis L[innaeus] [i.e., Carl Linnaeus] (family Lamiaceae)] contains a very low concentration of essential oil in leaves (0.02–0.2 vol%).

2003, Stjepan Pepeljnjak, Ivan Kosalec, Zdenka Kalodera, Danica Kuštrak, “Natural Antimycotics from Croatian Plants”, in Mahendra Rai, Donatella Mares, editors, Plant-derived Antimycotics: Current Trends and Future Prospects, Binghamton, N.Y.: Food Products Press, The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 66:

Honey plant [Honey-plant] – Melissa officinalis L., […]

2015, “H”, in Elaine Nowick, compiler, Historical Common Names of Great Plains Plants, with Scientific Names Index, volume 1 (Common Names), Lincoln, Neb.: Zea Books, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, →ISBN, page 195:

Melissa officinalis
Melissa officinalis#Translingual

A plant of the genus Melissa, especially lemon balm (Melissa officinalis).

English name: Honey Plant […] Species and varieties: Ammi majus L. […]

2004, Azhar Ali Farooqi, B. S. Sreeramu, “Medicinal Crops [Honey Plant]”, in Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Crops, revised edition, Hyderabad, Telangana, India: Universities Press (India), →ISBN, page 156:

Ammi majus Linnaeus […] in English: bishop's flower, bishop's weed, bullwort, crow's foot, devil's carrot, false Queen Anne's lace, greater ammi, herb william, honey plant, lace flower, large bulwort, mayweed, Queen Anne's lace, toothpick ammi

2012, Umberto Quattrocchi, “Ammi L. Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)”, in CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants: […], Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 244, column 2:

false Queen Anne's lace
false Queen Anne's lace

Bishop's weed or false Queen Anne's lace (Ammi majus).

isosudenporkkana

Ammi majus — see also false Queen Anne's lace


dogwood

dogwood (countable and uncountable, plural dogwoods)

From dag + wood, from dag (“a sharp object”).

Any of various small trees of the genus Cornus, especially the wild cornel and the flowering cornel

A wood or tree similar to this genus, used in different parts of the world.


kirsch

kirsch (usually uncountable, plural kirsches)

Borrowed from French kirsch, from German Kirschwasser (“cherry water”). Doublet of cerise and cherry.

(often capitalized) A clear brandy made from black cherries: kirschwasser.


black-eyed pea

لُوبِيَاء

cowpea bean, the produce of the aforementioned plant

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual

An African leguminous plant, of the species Vigna unguiculata, widely cultivated as food and forage, specifically Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata.

لُوبِيَاء

cowpea plant Vigna unguiculata or Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata


blackwood

blackwood (usually uncountable, plural blackwoods)

(countable) Any of several species of trees yielding a very dark wood.

African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), of Africa

Australian blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), of eastern Australia

Bombay blackwood (Dalbergia latifolia), of India

Haematoxylum campechianum, a tree from Mexico.

(uncountable) The very dark wood of such trees.


johnnycake

From johnny, alteration of journey, + cake.

Next mornin' I was up early and when the banker turned out I was fryin' a couple of slices of the pork and had some coffee b'ilin'. Likewise there was a pan of johnnycake in the oven.

1910, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter II, in The Depot Master:

(US) A dense, baked or fried flatbread made of cornmeal.


hominy

hominy (usually uncountable, plural hominies)

harmony (non-rhotic, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger)

First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan ("Virginia Algonquian"), though the exact source word is in question: suggestions include uskatahomen, appuminnéonash (“parched corn”), and rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”), the last yielding also the unclipped rockahominy.

Then his plate was put before him: hominy grits and a scrap of bacon. He wanted to cry, like a child: ‘But, Mama, it's my birthday!’

1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:

A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits.


whoop-de-doo

When Shoemaker wins or loses by a nose, it is an odds-on bet that a whoop-de-doo rider would have lost by lengths, having wasted the horse prematurely.

1988, Tom Ainslie, Ainslie's Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing, →ISBN, page 203:

(horse racing) A style of racing in which the jockey establishes an early lead and then runs as fast as possible.


iceberg lettuce

iceberg lettuce (countable and uncountable, plural iceberg lettuces)

→ Dutch: ijsbergsla (calque)

→ Finnish: jäävuorisalaatti (calque)

→ German: Eisbergsalat (calque)

→ Hungarian: jégsaláta (partial calque)

→ Spanish: lechuga iceberg (calque)

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I wonder how many of the readers of AMERICAN GARDENING have tried the Iceberg lettuce.

1895, American Gardening, volume 16, page 237:

A lettuce cultivar (Lactuca sativa var. capitata) noted for its crunchiness; the most familiar of all lettuces sold in the United States.


cribbing

cribbing (countable and uncountable, plural cribbings)

obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsive disorder

(ethology, equestrianism) A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.


mangelwurzel

From German Mangold (“chard”) + Wurzel (“root”), with the first part reinterpreted as Mangel, whence the archaic English name "root of scarcity".

I have not written to my beloved Amelia for these many weeks past, for what news was there to tell of the sayings and doings at Humdrum Hall, as I have christened it; and what do you care whether the turnip crop is good or bad; whether the fat pig weighed thirteen stone or fourteen; and whether the beasts thrive well upon mangelwurzel?

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 11, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels

1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

Beta vulgaris
Beta vulgaris#Translingual

A root vegetable, variety of Beta vulgaris, cultivated chiefly as cattle feed.


gramma

Traditionally Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata have been placed into two groups - pumpkins and grammas respectively.

1941, H. Barnes, Robert Veitch, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, John Howard Simmonds, The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook, Volume 1, page 238,
Pumpkins and grammas are harvested when mature, usually when the vines have died or been frosted.

The papaw pumpkin belongs to a different species (C. moschata) and is classed as a gramma.

1952, Desmond Andrew Herbert, Gardening in Warm Climates, page 151:

1983, Margaret Fulton, Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery: The Complete Kitchen Companion from A to Z, Revised 2005, Republished 2009, page 493,
Gramma, or bugle, pumpkin is the variety traditionally used for pumpkin pie, but if it is not available, use butternut instead.

(Australia) A variety of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata.


gramma

Accompanying said proposal any effort was made by the government to was a bond executed by said Drachman as obtain gramma hay for use at Ft. Huachuca.

1898, “Dennis v. United States”, in The Pacific Reporter, volume 52, page 355:

It is sometimes known as the "gramma grass," and is probably as valuable as any of the true gramma grasses; it is also called "mesquite grass."

1902, Report of the Governor of New Mexico to the Secretary of the Interior, page 233:

It is relished by cattle and horses, and is next to the gramma in value in those regions.

1906, William Harding Carter, Horses, Saddles and Bridles, page 369:


gramma

From Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma). Doublet of gram.

The studies were divided into three branches. First, the grammata, which included reading, writing, and arithmetic; secondly, music; and thirdly, gymnastics.

1855, J. Talboys Wheeler, The Life and Travels of Herodotus in the Fifth Century Before Christ: An Imaginary Biography Founded on Fact, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 22:

The subjects of reading, writing, and arithmetic.


grain whisky

grain whisky (countable and uncountable, plural grain whiskies)

Whisky made from unmalted barley mixed with maize or rye.


cordwood

cordwood (countable and uncountable, plural cordwoods)

The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts -- sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.

1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Chapter 7”, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 40:

The barkeeper drew beer from two pumps immediately in front of him, and rinsed glasses in some sort of a sink under the edge of the bar. The centre of the room was occupied by a tremendous stove capable of burning whole logs of cordwood.

1902, Edward Stewart White, chapter 27, in The Blazed Trail, McClure, Phillips & Co.:

Wood suitable for use as firewood; firewood cut and split into conveniently sized pieces for easy stacking into cords.


cornelian cherry

cornelian cherry (plural cornelian cherries)

The cherry-like fruit of the cornel, Cornus mas.


rocambole

/ˈɹɒkəmbəʊl/

/ˈɹəʊkəmbəʊl/

Borrowed from French rocambole, from regional German Rockenbolle.


mangosteen

Borrowed from Dutch mangosteen (“mangosteen”), from Malay manggustan, variant of manggis.

A tropical fruit of the tree genus Garcinia.

Garcinia mangostana
Garcinia mangostana#Translingual

(more specifically) A tropical fruit of the tree Garcinia mangostana.


fox grape

The native eastern North American grape, Vitis labrusca, with many cultivars, of which the Concord grape is the most important.


freestone

freestone (countable and uncountable, plural freestones)

(countable) A stone fruit having a stone (pit) that is relatively free of the flesh.


greenwood

greenwood (countable and uncountable, plural greenwoods)

From Middle English grene wode (“a forest that is leafed out, a greenwood" also "unseasoned firewood”), equivalent to green + wood.

inh

Within a greenewood ſweet of mirtle ſauor, when as the earth was with fayre flowers reuested, I ſaw a ſhepherd, with his Nymph that reſted, […]

1588, William Byrd, Giovanni Ferretti, composer, Musica Transalpina: Tenor. Madrigales Translated of Foure, Fiue and Sixe Partes, Chosen out of Diuers Excellent Authors, vvith the first and second part of La Verginella, Made by Maister Byrd, vpon Tvvo Stanza's of Ariosto, and Brought to Speake English vvith the Rest. Published by N. Yonge, in Fauour of such as Take Pleasure in Musicke of Voices, London: Imprinted at London [for Nicholas Yonge] by Thomas East, the assignè of William Byrd, →OCLC, number XXXIII:

Vnder the greene wood tree, / Who loues to lye with mee, / And turne his merrie Note, / Vnto the ſweet Birds throte: / Come hither, come hither, come hither: / Heere ſhall he ſee no enemie, / But Winter and rough Weather.

1599, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act II, scene v, page 192:

But Calipine, now being left alone / Under the greenewood’s ſide in ſorie plight, / Withouten armes or ſteede to ride upon, / Or houſe to hide his head from heaven’s ſpight, […]

1751, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene. By Edmund Spenser. With an Exact Collation of the Two Original Editions, Published by Himself at London in Quarto; the Former Containing the First Three Books Printed in 1590, and the Latter the Six Books in 1596. [...], London: Printed for J. Brindley, in New Bond-Street, and S. Wright, Clerk of His Majesty's Works, at Hampton-Court, →OCLC, book VI, canto IV, stanza XXXIX, page 270:

We who walk the greenwood do many a wild deed, and the Lady Rowena’s deliverance may be received as an atonement.

1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance [...] In Three Volumes, Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., 90, Cheapside, London:

The good green-wood! the good green-wood! / Where early violets spring, / Where 'mid the old oak's giant boughs / The merle and mavis sing, […] My dreams are of sweet music wild / Beneath the green-wood tree!

1842, “The Green-wood”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XI, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, →OCLC, page 605:

Warwickshire is, indeed, a county of Gospel Oaks, and many of these, like the others, are huge in growth and venerable in years. They formed the boundary lines or marks between adjoining parishes, and when the bounds were beaten the parson was wont to deliver his homily beneath the shady boughs. From this circumstance the trees have taken the name of “Gospel Oaks,” and though Time has somewhat thinned their number, there are many still existing, dotted about in various parts of this sequestered greenwood.

1900, George Morley, “Gospel Oaks”, in Shakespeare's Greenwood: The Customs of the Country: The Language; the Superstitions; the Customs; the Folk-lore; the Birds & Trees; the Parson; the Poets; the Novelist, London: David Nutt, →OCLC, page 206:

In a number of families, brothers joined opposite sides. Some fought on the communist side as guerrillas and assassinated their blood brothers who held jobs on village committees. Others who served the village militias shot and killed their siblings who came back from secret guerrilla bases in the greenwoods.

2012, Nguyễn Công Luận, Nationalist in the Viet Nam Wars: Memoirs of a Victim Turned Soldier, Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 185:

When they were young, he kissed her in the greenwood. When she brushes her fingers across her lips, she still remembers.

2014, Mari Ness, In the Greenwood, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN:

For the Spleene. 58 R. Aſhen keyes, and the Greenewood, burne them, & make Lye of the Aſhes: […]

1640, T[homas] B[rugis], The Marrovv of Physicke. Or, a Learned Discourse of the Severall Parts of Mans Body. Being a Medicamentary Teaching the Maner and Way of Making and Compounding All Such Oiles, Unguents, Sirrups, Cataplasmes, Waters, Powders, Emplaisters, Pilles, &c. as shall be Usefull and Necessary in any Private House, with Little Labour, Small Cost, and in Short Time …, London: Printed by Richard Hearne, →OCLC, page 172:

In severe winters, when pressed by hunger, they [the inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego] sacrifice the oldest women of their party—holding the head of the sufferer over a fire made of greenwood, to produce suffocation.

1839 July, Phillip Parker King, Robert FitzRoy, Charles Darwin, “Art. VI.—Narrative of the Voyages of H.M.S. Adventure and Beagle; detailing the various Incidents which occurred during thei Examination of the Southern Shores of South America, and during the Beagle's Circumnavigation of the Globe. By Captains King and Fitzroy, R.N., and Charles Darwin, Esq., Naturalist of the Beagle. 3 vols. 8vo. London: 1839.”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal: For April … July 1839, volume LXIX, number CXL, Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, London; and Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, pages 481–482:

From the 1920s onwards a new tier of timber merchants arose, causing the separation of the primary source, the forest, from the woodworker. Wood in its raw state became devalued, whereas seasoned wood processed into planks or blanks, could command high prices. Never again would the two extremes meet until the birth of what became known as the ‘greenwood movement’ in the 1970s. […] Many people attending a greenwood course never made more than one chair. But some people became so inspired they set up their own workshops in garages and back rooms.

2012, Edward Mills, Rebecca Oaks, “An Introduction to Greenwood”, in Greenwood Crafts: A Comprehensive Guide, Ramsbury, Wiltshire: Crowood Press, →ISBN:

Wood that is green; in other words, not seasoned.

Certain half-shrubby species of genista.


whitebark raspberry

en-noun

whitebark raspberry (plural whitebark raspberries)

A deciduous, viny shrub (Rubus leucodermis) with a pale, whitish bark.


blackcap raspberry

blackcap raspberry (plural blackcap raspberries)


huckleberry

Probably an alteration of Middle English hurtilbery (“whortleberry”). American English from 1660s.

cog

I'm your huckleberry.

(US, slang) The person one is looking for; the right person for the job.


hog fennel

Any meadow and woodland plant with smell, taste, or appearance of fennel, especially of

Any plant of species Peucedanum officinale


sarsaparilla

en-noun

sarsaparilla (countable and uncountable, plural sarsaparillas)

/ˌsɑːspəˈɹɪlə/

/ˌsæspəˈɹɪlə/

From Spanish zarzaparrilla. The first element may ultimately derive from Basque; see Spanish zarza (“blackberry bush”) for more.

Any of several North American plants, of the genus Aralia, having umbels and small white flowers.


corn on the cob

corn on the cob (usually uncountable, plural corns on the cob)

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[…] we ate grilled corn on the cob from street vendors in the colonnades.

2013, Henriette Lazaridis Power, The Clover House: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 405:

Every day I ordered a salad, two corns on the cob, and some vegetable stirfry (which wasn’t too bad, but also had to be rinsed), but the bulk of my meal would be fruit.

2014, Shani Krebs, Dragons & Butterflies: Sentenced to Die, Choosing to Live, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers, →ISBN, page 621:

Cooked ears of corn (maize, specifically sweet corn).


oaks

(horse racing) A stakes race in which entry is restricted to 3-year-old fillies.


beefsteak

beefsteak (countable and uncountable, plural beefsteaks)

→ Danish: bøfsteg

Danish: bøf

→ Faroese: búffur

→ Icelandic: buff

→ Esperanto: bifsteko

→ Estonian: biifsteek

desctree

→ French: bifteck, biftèque (post-1990 spelling), beefsteak, beefsteck, beefteak, beefteck, biffteck, biftec, bistec, bisteck (all obsolete)
→ Albanian: biftek
→ Armenian: պիֆթէք (piftʻēkʻ) (Western Armenian)
→ Bulgarian: бифте́к (bifték)
→ Czech: biftek
→ Greek: μπιφτέκι (biftéki)
→ Ladino: biftek
→ Macedonian: бифтек (biftek)
→ Japanese: ビフテキ (bifuteki)
→ Ottoman Turkish: بیفتك (biftek)
Turkish: biftek
→ Romanian: biftec
→ Vietnamese: bít tết

→ German: Beefsteak

→ Armenian: բիֆշտեքս (bifštekʻs)

→ Belarusian: біфштэ́кс (bifštéks)

→ Georgian: ბიფშტექსი (bipšṭeksi)

→ Latvian: bifšteks

→ Lithuanian: bifštekas

→ Russian: бифште́кс (bifštéks) (see there for further descendants)

→ Ukrainian: біфште́кс (bifštéks)

→ Polish: befsztyk

→ Indonesian: bistik

→ Italian: bistecca

→ Japanese: ビーフステーキ (bīfusutēki)

→ Korean: 비프스테이크 (bipeuseuteikeu)

→ Malay: bifstik

→ Occitan: bistèc

→ Brazilian Portuguese: bisteca

→ Spanish: bistec

→ Swedish: biffstek

→ Tagalog: bistek

(countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak plant, also known as perilla and shiso (Perilla frutescens var. crispa).

(uncountable) The herb prepared from the leaves of the beefsteak plant.

I purchased a half dozen of the healthiest-looking beefsteaks I could find, and tenderly planted the young shoots, using plenty of fertilizer and mulch. I faithfully watered them every day and the little plants quickly shot up to an impressive height.

2001, Patricia Mondore, A Perennial Faith: Finding Courage to Grow in the Garden of Life:

beefsteak tomato
beefsteak tomato#English

(countable) Ellipsis of beefsteak tomato.

(countable, archaic): A celebratory dinner, commonly held in New York between about 1870 and 1940 involving the consumption of enormous quantities of broiled steak and beer.


carotte

a carotte of perique

He himself was obviously a non-smoker, and probably a total abstainer as well. I do not like to end this factual account of my smoking life with hard thoughts about a non-smoking official who deprived me of a carotte of tobacco.

1957, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Sublime Tobacco:


colewort

en-noun

colewort (usually uncountable, plural coleworts)

Inherited from Middle English coolwort, coulwort, cole-wort, caule worte, equivalent to cole + wort.

Fat coleworts, and comforting perseline , Cold lettuce , and refreshing rosmarine

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

[W]e may observe that water will more readily wet some woods then others; and that water, let fall upon a Feather, the whiter side of a Colwort, and some other leaves, or upon almost any dusty, unctuous, or resinous superficies, will not at all adhere to them, but easily tumble off from them, like a solid Bowl […].

A plant of the genus Brassica; now specifically, a Brassica plant without a head used for food, such as kale.


sultana

1580s, Italian sultana (feminine of sultano). Displaced existing sultaness.

bor

feminine of <i class="Latn mention" lang="it">sultano</i>


modern pentathlon

en-noun

modern pentathlon (usually uncountable, plural modern pentathlons)

Dwindling interest and a reputation for being outdated couldn’t change modern pentathlon. A brief video clip of a coach punching a horse at the Tokyo Olympics has altered it forever.

2021 March 11, Victor Mather, “Modern Pentathlon Drops Equestrian Competition After Abuse Claims”, in The New York Times:

An athletics event where athletes compete in épée fencing, shooting, freestyle swimming, show jumping and cross country.


cicuta

Borrowed from Latin cicūta. Apparently related to kex/kix.

cicuta, or hemlock, is a strong poison in Greece, but with us it hath no such violent effects […].

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection ii:


Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon (countable and uncountable, plural Cabernet Sauvignons)

A variety of red grape used principally in wine-making.


wormseed

From Middle English wormsede, wormesede, worme sede, wyrmsed, equivalent to worm + seed.

Santonica or Levant wormseed (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), an Asian plant related to wormwood.


black mulberry

black mulberry (plural black mulberries)

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A mulberry of species (Morus nigra), a small deciduous tree growing to 10–13 m tall and native to southwestern Asia.


prickly pear

From prickly + pear, from the nature of the plant's fruit, which, like the cactus it grows on, has spines on its surface.

Any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia.

turksvy

any of various spiny cacti of the genus Opuntia


pistachio

pistachio (plural pistachios or pistachioes)

pistachios (plural)
pistachioes (plural)

→ Japanese: ピスタチオ (pisutachio)

→ Korean: 피스타치오 (piseutachio)

→ Malay: pistacio, pistasio

→ Thai: พิสตาชีโอ (pís-dtaa-chí-ôo)

→ Welsh: pistasio

From Italian pistacchio (1590s), from Latin pistācium (“pistachio”), from Ancient Greek πιστάκιον (pistákion), from πιστάκη (pistákē, “pistachio tree”). Of Iranian origin. Compare Northern Kurdish pisteq, Persian پسته (peste), Middle Persian pstk' (pistag, “pistachio nut”), Old Armenian պիստակ (pistak) (from Iranian), Arabic فُسْتُق (fustuq), Turkish fıstık.

cog

Pistacia vera
Pistacia vera#Translingual

A deciduous tree (Pistacia vera) grown in parts of Asia for its drupaceous fruit.


nep

From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (“catnip”). Doublet of nepeta.

Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio, published 2007, page 201:

Nepeta cataria
Nepeta cataria#Translingual


aparejo

(historical, especially military) A kind of packsaddle formerly used in the United States military, and in Latin America, made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or similar substances.

albarda

packsaddle made of leather stuffed with hay


hyssop

en-noun

hyssop (countable and uncountable, plural hyssops)

Via Latin hȳsōpum, from Ancient Greek ὕσσωπος (hússōpos), of Semitic origin.

The life of one plant would be affected by another. Rue was definitely hostile to basil, rosemary to hyssop, but coriander, dill and chervil lived on the friendliest of terms[.]

1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 253:

Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally.

Agastache foeniculum, blue giant hyssop.

(obsolete, US) The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.).

Origanum syriacum
Origanum syriacum#Translingual

(biblical) A plant used used for sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, Origanum syriacum.


dried plum

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plum tree

From Middle English plumtre, from Old English plūmtrēow; equivalent to plum + tree.


sugar-plum

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miro

An Eastern Polynesian borrowing, reported as the native name of Rarotonga etc.

A portia tree (Thespesia populnea), of dark, durable, attractive wood.

Pectinopitys ferruginea
Pectinopitys ferruginea#Translingual

Prumnopitys ferruginea
Prumnopitys ferruginea

A conifer of New Zealand, of species Pectinopitys ferruginea (syn. Prumnopitys ferruginea).


plum wine

plum wine (usually uncountable, plural plum wines)

plum + wine, plum being the traditional (though inaccurate) translation of ume, a Japanese fruit closely related to the apricot.


ballotade

(dressage) A leap of a horse so that when its four feet are in the air simultaneously and aligned.


snowberry

From snow + berry, from the snow-white colour.

Himalayan snowberry (Gaultheria trichophylla

also Gaultheria, especially Gaultheria oppositifolia, and


butterfly bush

butterfly bush (plural butterfly bushes)

Any of several plants that conspicuously attract butterflies

especially of the species Buddleja davidii and Buddleja globosa.

Asclepias tuberosa
Asclepias tuberosa#Translingual

Blue butterfly bush (Rotheca myricoides, syn. Clerodendrum ugandense).


vinho

vinho (countable and uncountable, plural vinhos)

Borrowed from Portuguese vinho (“wine”); compare vino. Doublet of wine and vine.


johnny cake

The little girls sat under the pines eating their thick mutton sandwiches and big slabs of johnny cake spread with butter.

1922, Katherine Mansfield, “The Doll's House”, in Selected Stories, Oxford, published 2002, page 353:

The women were good cooks. They used to cook bread, damper and johnny cake in bakers.

1987, Ida West, “Pride Against Prejudice”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008, page 108:

(Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of johnnycake (“type of basic cornbread”)


winemaker

From Middle English wynmaker; equivalent to wine + maker.


perilla

perilla (countable and uncountable, plural perillas)

The smell of burnt flesh, which the perilla seeds couldn't wholly mask, pricked my nose.

2015, Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian, Granta, published 2018, page 42:

Perilla frutescens
Perilla frutescens#Translingual

An East Asian herb with flavorful leaves used in cooking and as a garnish, Perilla frutescens. Also grown for the seeds, which contain an edible and industrially-useful oil.


bindweed

bindweed (countable and uncountable, plural bindweeds)

Any of several plants of species in other families with similar appearance:

The bittersweet nightshade, blue bindweed (Solanum dulcamara).

Solanum dulcamara
Solanum dulcamara#Translingual


boxwood

boxwood (countable and uncountable, plural boxwoods)

From box + wood; box from Latin buxus (“box-tree, object made of boxwood”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos).

uder

(countable, uncountable) Any tree of genus Buxus.


Bramley

From Old English brom (“broom”) + leah (“wood clearing, meadow”), like Bromley. Equivalent to broom + -ley (“lea”).

Western Australia
Western Australia#English

A small townsite in the South West Region of Western Australia.


cornbread

en-noun

cornbread (countable and uncountable, plural cornbreads)

Coordinate term: corn pudding


corncob

en-verb

corncob (third-person singular simple present corncobs, present participle corncobbing, simple past and past participle corncobbed)

corncobs (present singular third-person)
corncobbing (participle present)
corncobbed (participle past)
corncobbed (past)

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From corn + cob. The Internet slang sense emerged from a 2011 absurdist tweet by Weird Twitter personality dril in which a man furiously denies being owned as he transforms into a corncob.

“Do you enjoy being corncobbed?”

2017 July 18, Jeremy Gordon, “CNN’s Most Cynical Pundit Got Mercilessly Owned in a Reddit AMA”, in SPIN:

Trump had lost but was denying that this was the case. He had been corncobbed.

2017 September 4, Amelia Tait, “The internet dictionary: what does it mean to be corncobbed?”, in The New Statesmen:

Distracted cops, rude asteroids and the corncobbing of Andrew Koenig

2021, Daniel Hill, "The Big Mad: Missed Connections", Riverfront Times, 24 March 2021 - 30 March 2021, page 11

(transitive, US, Internet slang) To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.


Carroll

A number of places in the United States:

A city, the county seat of Carroll County, Iowa.

Chautauqua County
Chautauqua County#English

Fairfield County
Fairfield County#English

An unincorporated community in Smith County, Texas.

A number of townships, in Illinois, Iowa (2), Missouri, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (3).

A village in Gunnedah Shire, northern New South Wales, Australia.


Bismarck

The capital city of North Dakota, United States and the county seat of Burleigh County.


Niagara

/naɪˈæɡ(ə)ɹə/

From an Iroquoian language; compare Mohawk ohnyá:kara' (“neck of land”). The name of the tribe which resided in the area was recorded on early maps as Onguiarahronon or Niagagarega.

A river (the Niagara River) which flows from Lake Erie, over Niagara Falls into Lake Ontario; the geographical region of the United States and Canada in proximity to this river.


curry comb

/ˈkʌɹiˌkəʊm/


detassel

detassel (third-person singular simple present detassels, present participle detasseling or detasselling, simple past and past participle detasseled or detasselled)

detassels (present singular third-person)
detasseling (participle present)
detasselling (participle present)
detasseled (participle past)
detasseled (past)
detasselled (participle past)
detasselled (past)

(US, transitive) To remove the pollen-bearing tassel from (a female maize plant) as part of the hybridization process.


kretek

Borrowed from Indonesian kretek, of onomatopoetic origin.

A cigarette containing clove as well as tobacco, originating from Indonesia.


corn liquor

en-noun

corn liquor (countable and uncountable, plural corn liquors)

(US) A distilled spirit, derived from maize, having a high alcohol content and little flavor.


sapwood

sapwood (countable and uncountable, plural sapwoods)

A popular myth is that sapwood is not as strong as heartwood.

The wood just under the bark of a stem or branch; it differs from the heartwood in color and in physiologic activity (flow of sap).


heartwood

heartwood (countable and uncountable, plural heartwoods)

Coordinate term: sapwood

A popular myth is that heartwood is stronger than sapwood.

The staves are split from the heartwood. The heartwood is composed of dead cells; it supports the tree, but no longer has any physiological purpose. The staves must follow the grain of the wood to achieve a watertight cask, so they are split rather than sawn. — L'encyclopédie du Cognac: From log to stave

The wood nearer the heart of a stem or branch, different in color from the sapwood.


lime

From French lime, from Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة (līma), from Persian لیمو (limu). Doublet of lemon.


juneberry

From June + berry, the berries typically ripening in June.

Wiegand juneberry (Amelanchier × wiegandii

Any of several North American trees of the genus Amelanchier, having white flowers and edible, purplish fruit.


hoecake

From hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).

In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.

(dated, Southern US) A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.


horse

horse (countable and uncountable, plural horses)

Sranan Tongo: asi

→ Maori: hōiho

→ Quiripi: hosses (from the plural horses)

From Middle English horse, hors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car. Cognate with North Frisian hors (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Dutch ros, hors (“horse”), German Ross (“horse”), Danish hors (“horse”), Swedish russ, hors (“horse”), Icelandic hross, hors (“horse”).

a camel is a horse designed by a committee

a nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

close the barn door after the horse has bolted

close the stable door after the horse has been stolen

close the stable door after the horse has bolted

lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen

lock the stable door after the horse has bolted

shut the stable door after the horse has bolted

you can't put the shit back in the horse

zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse

Also Horse harness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See Horse-drawn vehicles on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Note: Many of these were adapted into and/or gave their names to motor vehicle types

with the horse-drawn originals often being forgotten.

The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms

1887, William Clark Russell, A Book for the Hammock:

(nautical) Type of equipment.
A jackstay.


horse

Unknown; probably originally criminals' cant based on the initial letter of both words.

Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar

It was to remember the juke box, the teasing, the dancing, the hard-on, the gang fights and gang bangs, his first set of drums—bought him by his father—his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.

1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published 1963 January, page 6:


cherimoya

/t͡ʃɛɹɪˈmɔɪ.ə/

/t͡ʃeɹɪˈmoɪ.ə/

Borrowed from Spanish chirimoya, from Quechua chirimuya.

Annona cherimola
Annona cherimola#Translingual

A subtropical tree, of species Annona cherimola, native to mountainous areas of South America.


nutgrass

Cyperus esculentus
Cyperus esculentus#Translingual

Cyperus rotundus
Cyperus rotundus#Translingual

Any perennial sedge of species Cyperus esculentus or Cyperus rotundus, that has small edible nutlike tubers.


featherweight

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Safety and fairness in female sport was one of the most prominent topics at this summer’s Olympic Games, where boxers Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting took gold in the women’s welterweight and featherweight categories respectively.

2024 November 4, Jamie Gardner, “Mandatory genetic testing in sport ‘not justified, ethical or viable’, say academics”, in The Independent:

A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 126 pounds or 57.2 kilograms.


mooli

Borrowed from Hindi मूली (mūlī, “[Indian] radish”) (feminine of मूल (mūl)), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀽𑀮 (mūla), from Sanskrit मूल (mūla).

Fresh vegetables... most in use among natives are—Gájar, carrot... Múlí, radish (Raphanus sativus, L.).

1868, B.H. Powell, Handbk. Econ. Products Punjab, I. iii. 260/1:

Particularly delicious was mooli stuffed paratha—rich, flaky and filled with a fragrant grated radish mixture.

This is thanks to the introduction of a wider range of radish varieties into supermarkets, especially the long-rooted ‘mooli’ types from Japan.

(chiefly UK and India, Indian cuisine) Synonym of daikon, particularly its Indian varieties.


red onion

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A type of onion with reddish purplish skin.

rødløg

a type of onion with reddish purplish skin


bluenose

(US, Australia) A trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis)


schoolie

From school + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).

(equestrianism, informal) Synonym of school horse


spikenard

spikenard (countable and uncountable, plural spikenards)

From Middle English spikenard, spikenarde, from Anglo-Norman spicanarde, from Medieval Latin spīca nardī, from Latin spica (“spike”) + nardi (“nard”). Equivalent to spike + nard.

Ploughman's spikenard
ploughman's spikenard

Ploughman's spikenard (Inula conyza, now Pentanema conyzae).


artemisia

/ɑːtɪˈmɪzɪə/

From Latin artemisia, from Ancient Greek ἀρτεμισία (artemisía), from Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).

In the event of anyone wishing to invoke the very Prince of Spirits, the following ingredients were prescribed to be burnt - Juice of Hypericon, Saffron, Artemisia, and the root of Valerian.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:

Our central issue, however, is whether the artemisia of Dioscorides is mugwort. Fuchs in Germany shows no hesitation in accepting the beyfusz of his country, called armoise by the French and Artemisia latifolia or broadleaved artemisia by the Italians, is the artemisia of Dioscorides, Galen, and Pliny, and he quotes them exactly on the plant's medicinal actions.

2010, Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Margaret Whitelegg, The Western Herbal Tradition, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 125:

Any of many aromatic flowering plants of the genus Artemisia, including wormwood, sagebrush, and tarragon, often used as traditional medicine, oral contraceptive and flavoring.

полы́нь

джунга́рская


canadew

A melon that is a cross between a honeydew and a cantaloupe.


good egg

Probably a humorous antonym of bad egg (“someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue”).

The chemist and the bacteriologist gave him the third degree and, like most criminals, it was found difficult to tell just when a good egg began to be bad, and it appeared that it depended largely on how he was handled, especially in his youth, […]

1915, Good Housekeeping, volume 6, New York, N.Y.: Phelps Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 371:

Tom speaks: "I have a girl friend I want you to meet. She's a good egg."

1942, The Texas Outlook, volume 26, Austin, Tex.: Texas State Teachers Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 42:

Johnny Parker is in town. I like Johnny. He's a big shot in pictures and he's a good egg.

1944, James T[homas] Farrell, To Whom It May Concern: More Stories, Garden City, N.Y.: The Sun Dial Press, →OCLC, page 23:

In contrast, Saito […] was one of the good eggs … He would let us rest whenever the coast was clear and even shared the odd cigarette.

1997, Brereton Greenhous, “Liberation”, in “C” Force to Hong Kong: A Canadian Catastrophe, 1941–1945 (Canadian War Museum Historical Publication; no. 30), Toronto, Ont., Oxford: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 141:

"And the fifth immortal we know tried to kill you." "He is a bad egg. We stick to good''' eggs."

2017 May 26, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, May 26, 2017:

Drogon sniffs Jon [Snow]—and Dany [Daenerys Targaryen] apparently doesn't care enough about Jon's life to get off Drogon so she can witness their interaction on the other side of his fat neck and make sure her son isn't eating his cousin—and seems to sense he's a good egg at the least and quite possibly that he's a Targaryen.

2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown Offers One Last Game-changing Secret as Game Of Thrones Goes behind Enemy Lines (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-04:

(British, US, idiomatic) A good person, someone to be trusted; a friend.


camote

From Spanish camote, from Classical Nahuatl camohtli. Compare Tagalog kamote.

Ipomoea batatas
Ipomoea batatas#Translingual


azuki bean

The Chinese characters for azuki bean [Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi], 小豆, means^([sic]) “small bean,” while the kanji characters for soybean, 大豆, mean “big bean.” These characters also reflect the relative importance of these two crops in East Asia, where they are the main legumes in people's diets.

2005 March 16, chapter 11, in Ram J. Singh, Prem P. Jauhar, editors, Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Grain Legumes, CRC Press, →ISBN:

Vigna angularis
Vigna angularis#Translingual

An annual vine (Vigna angularis), widely grown throughout East Asia and the Himalayas for its small bean.


wax bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

Any of several forms of Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean) having a yellow or other-coloured pod; the butter bean


brazil nut

Bertholletia excelsa
Bertholletia excelsa#Translingual

Bertholletia excelsa, a tree native to tropical South America.


backstretch

At the time appointed to start [2 1 2 P.M.], the horses made their appearance on the track, and were soon after called up by the judges for the race. They were startd at six minutes before three o'clock, the pacer having the pole, and leading round the first turn. On the backstretch he waited for the trotter, and let him take sides with him, it being apparent at this early stage that [George] Spicer did not intend to go any faster than the trotter would make him, at the same time keeping the trotter on the ouside all the way round, thereby making him go a greater distance in the race.

1853 November 26, “Ten Mile Race in Centreville, L.I.”, in Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-room Companion, volume V, number 22 (number 126 from the start), Boston, Mass.: F[rederick] Gleason, corner of Tremont and Bromfield Sts., →OCLC, page 340, column 1:

This was a day almost fifty years since the time I was supposed to run in the 4 by 100-meter Olympic relay. I was standing on the track in the imposing, empty Olympic Stadium in Berlin. […] I walked down into the well of the vast, brooding stadium, and then along the backstretch of the red clay running oval.

1996, Marty Glickman, Stan Isaacs, “Prologue”, in The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story (Sports and Entertainment), Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 2:

(athletics, horse racing, car racing) Synonym of back straight (“straight part of a racetrack, running track, etc., opposite the finishing line”).

back straight

Dominic Gatto liked to have someone at the track to represent him when one of his horses raced at Arlington Park or Belmont or Prescott Downs. Someone to relay a word to the jockey, keep a sharp eye on the trainer, distribute tips to the backstretch workers who were made to understand that Mr Dominic appreciated their services.

1997, Cary Fagan, chapter 9, in Sleeping Weather, Erin, Ont.: The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 71:

When I was a kid here, growing up in the Palouse River, we never met people from other cultures or countries. There on the racetracks and backstretches in England I met people from all over the world. Everyone came together to own the horses, to work the horses and to watch them race.

2012, Krista Michelle Breen, “Quicksand”, in Quicksand: The Mysterious Disappearance of Dakotaroo, 4th edition, Rockwood, Ont.: Groundskeeper's Cottage Press, →ISBN, page 130:

(horse racing) An area next to a racetrack used to stable the racehorses and house employees.


barberry

From Middle English berberie, from Medieval Latin berberis (on which see Arabic بَرْبَارِيس (barbārīs)), influenced by berie (“berry”). Doublet of berberis.

BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets. […] ℞. medulla caſiæ fiſtulæ newly drawen. ℥. j. or ʒ. x. the graines (that is the kernelles) of barbaries. ℈. ß. and with ſugar roſet [sugar compounded with rose petals] make a bole.

1583, Philip Barrough [i.e., Philip Barrow], “Of Making Bolus”, in The Methode of Phisicke, Conteyning the Causes, Signes, and Cures of Inward Diseases in Mans Body from the Head to the Foote. […], London: […] Thomas Vautroullier […], →OCLC, book VI, page 288:

Any of the thorny shrubs of genus Berberis, which bear yellow flowers and red or blue-black berries.


bayberry

It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

(Canada, US) The fruit of the wax myrtle shrub; or the plant itself (Morella cerifera), with aromatic, leathery leaves and waxy berries.

The two North American genera are Myrica (bayberry) and Comptonia (sweet-fern).

2002, James Fralish, Scott Franklin, Taxonomy and Ecology of Woody Plants in North American Forests, Myricaceae (Bayberry or Wax-Myrtle Family), page 230:

Other species in the family Myricaceae, especially in genus Myrica; bay-rum tree, candleberry.

[T]heir shape was much like a Figg, but very much smaller, some being about the bigness of a Bay-berry, others, and the biggest, of a Hazel-Nut.

1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, section XLIII:

Laurus nobilis
Laurus nobilis#Translingual

The fruit of the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis).

West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa), a tropical American shrub with aromatic leaves that are used in the preparation of bay rum.


garlicky

en-adj

garlicky (comparative more garlicky or garlickier, superlative most garlicky or garlickiest)

more garlicky (comparative)
garlickier (comparative)
most garlicky (superlative)
garlickiest (superlative)

"I had rather see an English beef-steak and horse-raddish than this eternal succession of greasy stews and garlicky ragouts," returned Grumpall.

1786, Mrs. Johnson, Juliana, volume 3, page 22:

Jersey lamb is sometimes garlicky early in the season. Avoid buying it; you can easily tell it by the garlicky smell. It can only be rendered eatable by stewing, or frying it with plenty of onions. To plain roast or boil garlicky meat is in vain.

1857, Eliza Leslie, “Lamb”, in Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 306 Chestnut Street, →OCLC, page 182:

My companion's Caesar salad, garlickier than most versions, featured homemade croutons.

1982, Serena Jutkovitz, SJ's Winners: An Exceptional Approach to Round-the-world Wining and Dining in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco, Calif.: Russian Hill House Books, →ISBN, page 202:

It opened up a new world of taste and provided me with one of the keenest—and the garlickiest—gastronomic experiences of my life.

2012, Liz Primeau, “A Pungent Love Affair: The Art of Eating Garlic”, in In Pursuit of Garlic: An Intimate Look at the Divinely Odorous Bulb, Vancouver, B.C.: Greystone Books, D&M Publishers Inc., →ISBN, page 31:

A burger with garlic aioli, caramelized onions, and garlicky mushrooms could be anyone's perfect meal, whether they're on GAPS [Gut and Psychology Syndrome] or not.

2014, Hilary Boynton, Mary G. Brackett, “The GAPS Introduction Diet”, in The Heal Your Gut Cookbook: Nutrient-Dense Recipes for Intestinal Health Using the GAPS Diet, White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, →ISBN, page 73:


meum

Borrowed from Latin mēum (“Meum athamanticum”), from Ancient Greek μῆον (mêon), probably from μεῖον (meîon, “lesser”) for its small size.

bor+

Meum athamanticum
Meum athamanticum#Translingual


wild strawberry

en-noun

wild strawberry (plural wild strawberries)

Fragaria vesca
Fragaria vesca#Translingual

A plant of the species of strawberry growing naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, Fragaria vesca.

a groundcover that resembles wild strawberries


hautboy

desctree

→ Russian: гобой (goboj)
→ Armenian: հոբոյ (hoboy)
→ Azerbaijani: qoboy
→ Georgian: ჰობოი (hoboi)
→ Kazakh: гобой (goboi)

From Middle French hautbois. Doublet of oboe and hautbois.

I […] told John a Gaunt he beat his own name; for you might have thrust him and all his apparel into an eel-skin; the case of a treble hautboy was a mansion for him, a court […]

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

[W]ee would that the voice and dialect of the propheteſſe Pythia, reſembling the ſpeech of a Chorus in a tragedie from a ſcaffold, ſhould pronounce her anſwers not in ſimple, plaine, and triviall termes, without any grace to ſet them out, but with Poeticall magnificence of high and ſtately verſes, diſguiſed as it were with metaphors and figurative phraſes, yea, and that which more is, with ſound of flute and hautboies: […]

1603, Plutarch, “Why the Prophetesse Pythia Giveth No Answers Now from the Oracle in Verse or Meeter”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1199:

1694, uncredited translator, The Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland by Friderich Martens in An Account of Several Late Voyages & Discoveries to the South and North, London: Sam Smith and Benjamin Walford, Chapter 1, p. 12,
When after this manner any have lost their Ships, and cannot be seen, they discharge a Cannon from the Ship, or sound the Trumpets, or Haut-boys, according as they are provided in their Ships, that the men that are lost may find their Ship again.

[…] even in a hautboy song, or any other where a particular instrument may have an obligato accompaniment, the voice ought to be every where assisted, but no where eclipsed.

1788, Charles Dibdin, The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin, Sheffield, Letter 48, p. 197:

1816, William Hazlitt, “Theatrical Debuts,” The Examiner, 20 October, 1816, in A. R. Waller and Arnold Glover (eds.), The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, London: J.M. Dent, 1903, p. 341,
The notes proceed from her mouth as mechanically, as unmitigated by the sentiment, as if they came from the sharp hautboy or grating bassoon.

“Well, this is a bad night altogether for them that have done well in their time; and if I were ever such a dab at the hautboy or tenor-viol, I shouldn’t have the heart to play tunes upon ’em now.”

1878, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Return of the Native, volume 3, London: Smith, Elder, page 69:

So when they said yea to this, he called to him his player on the theorbo and his player on the hautboy, and commanded them saying, “Play me a solemn music.”

1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros, London: Jonathan Cape, page 31:

(dated, music) An oboe or similar treble double reed instrument.

(music) A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.

In May we have strawberries, which continue in season two or three months. These are of the wood kind; very grateful, and of a good flavour; but the scarlets and hautboys are not known at Nice.

1766, Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy, London: R. Baldwin, Volume 1, Letter 19, pp. 304-305:

“The best fruit in England—every body’s favourite—always wholesome.—These the finest beds and finest sorts. […] every sort good—hautboy infinitely superior—no comparison—the others hardly eatable—hautboys very scarce […]”

1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter 6, in Emma: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC:

A tall-growing strawberry, Fragaria elatior, having a musky flavor.


highbush blueberry

en-noun

highbush blueberry (plural highbush blueberries)

The common species of blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum, grown for its fruit.


lowbush blueberry

lowbush blueberry (plural lowbush blueberries)

A wild North American blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium, sometimes grown commercially for its fruit


wild blueberry

wild blueberry (plural wild blueberries)

Any of several species of blueberry, of the genus Vaccinium, having blue berries, that are not normally cultivated.


calamint

calamint (countable and uncountable, plural calamints)

From French calament (assimilated in English to mint), from Old French calament, calamente, from Medieval Latin calamentum, from Latin calaminthe, from Ancient Greek καλαμίνθη (kalamínthē, “an odoriferous plant”), of uncertain origin (either by haplology from *καλαμο-μίνθη (*kalamo-mínthē) or a loanword, which Beekes considers most likely to be from Pre-Greek).
Attested since early 17th century.

der

Any species of aromatic garden herb of the genus Calamintha, now often included in Clinopodium.

فُوذَنَج

in the Middle Ages surely; otherwise modernly one has no certain name but may transcribe the English or botanical name

Steinquendel

proscribed by those who use it for Acinos


yerba buena

A perennial herb native to North America, Satureja douglasii, having white or purple flowers and a mint-like fragrance.


shiso

Any of several varieties of the herb Perilla frutescens, related to basil and mint, used in Japanese cooking.


hedera

From the genus name Hedera, in turn from Latin hedera (“ivy”).

The American Ivy Society hewed closely to the theme, exhibiting only hederas that come from Ireland or have an Irish name.

2007 March 8, Jan Benzel, “Philadelphia Calls Off Winter for a Week”, in New York Times:

(horticulture) Any Old World ivy of the genus Hedera


Queen Anne's lace

There were wildflowers alongside the vegetable patches at the edge of the pavement, Queen Anne’s lace whispering against Kirsten’s outstretched hand.

2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 49:

Daucus carota
Daucus carota#Translingual

(Canada, US) A flowering plant, species Daucus carota, especially the flowering part of the plant.


aromatic vegetable

en-noun

aromatic vegetable (plural aromatic vegetables)

Any vegetable used as a flavor base for cooking, usually by sweating or sautéeing. Carrots, onions, garlic, peppers, and celery are often used for this purpose.


salmonberry

From salmon + berry, since they were traditionally eaten with salmon by indigenous peoples.

A bush, Rubus spectabilis, found on the Pacific coast of North America.


pimiento

From Spanish pimiento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingō (“to paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimento.

der

Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuum#Translingual

Synonym of pimento, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum.


pimento

Borrowed from Portuguese pimento (“bell pepper; later any pepper”), similar to Spanish pimiento, from Latin pigmentum (“coloring; colorful thing”), from pingo (“paint”) and -mentum (suffix denoting instruments and results of actions). Doublet of pigment, piment, and pimiento.

doublet

A red sweet pepper, a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, used to make relish, stuffed into olives, or used as spice.


winged bean

A tropical legume of species Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, having clusters of purple flowers and pods with four jagged wings


bad egg

An allusion to an egg that has gone bad or turned rotten.

(literal) An egg that has gone bad; a rotten egg.


beechnut

The small, triangular, edible nut of the beech tree.


Bartlett

The pear was named by Enoch Bartlett of Dorchester, Massachusetts, after himself.

A surname transferred from the given name from a pet form of Bartholomew.

A village, the county seat of Wheeler County, Nebraska.


Bartlett

The first bite into those Bartletts was intoxicating. The juice met your teeth with a gush.

1941, Emily Carr, chapter 15, in Klee Wyck:


feverfew

en-noun

feverfew (countable and uncountable, plural feverfews)

From Middle English feverfu, feverfeu, feverfugie, modified by folk etymology from either Old French fevrefue or Old English feferfuge, both from Latin febrifugia, from febris (“fever”) + fugō (“I drive away”). Doublet of febrifuge.

Tanacetum parthenium
Tanacetum parthenium#Translingual

A European aromatic perennial herb, Tanacetum parthenium (or Chrysanthemum parthenium or Pyrethrum parthenium), having daisy-like flowers; valued as a traditional medicine, especially for headaches.


orpine

From Old French orpin, Old French orpiment, from Latin auripigmentum (“orpiment”), from aurum (“gold”) + pigmentum (“pigment”).

Common Orpine rises up with diverse round, brittle stalks, thick set with fat and fleshy leaves without any order, and little or nothing dented about the edges; of a pale green colour.

1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 207:

A plant of orpine was often set by a young girl on her window sill on Midsummer Eve.

1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268:

Hylotelephium telephium
Hylotelephium telephium#Translingual

Any of several temperate succulent plants of the family Crassulaceae, that have clusters of purple flowers, especially Hylotelephium telephium.


flageolet

(music) A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones.


Hedelfinger

A cultivar of the wild cherry, Prunus avium


wild cherry

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

An uncultivated cherry tree of species Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia.

Prunus serotina
Prunus serotina#Translingual

A tree of species Prunus serotina, native to North America.

A tree of species Antidesma bunius, native to Southeast Asia and northern Australia


viniculture

viniculture (countable and uncountable, plural vinicultures)

From Latin vīnī cultūra (“cultivation of wine, winegrowing”). Compare viticulture.

Synonym of viticulture, the cultivation of grape vines for producing wine.


catmint

catmint (countable and uncountable, plural catmints)

From Middle English catt mynte, kattesminte, equivalent to cat + mint. The word’s appearance in early Middle English (c. 1230) and other Germanic languages (German Katzenminze, Icelandic kattarminta, Swedish kattmynta) means that it is very likely to have existed in Old English (as *cattes minte) as well.

Nepeta cataria
Nepeta cataria#Translingual

Synonym of catnip (the plant Nepeta cataria, or other members of the genus)


grapeseed

The Corpus Luteum: […] scarcely a month after conception, one of them might have contained a grapeseed, although its perforation was too small to admit a hempseed.

1852, Alfred Velpeau, A Complete Treatise on Midwifery:


grapeseed oil

grapeseed oil (countable and uncountable, plural grapeseed oils)

Grapeseed Oil: This organically grown oil from France is ideal as a massage oil.

2006, Jesse Dallas, Pets Need Wholesome Food Also:

A light, relatively bland vegetable oil, extracted from the seeds of the grape; used for salad dressings etc.


cornpone

cornpone (countable and uncountable, plural cornpones)

Coordinate term: corn pudding

The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee.

(US, Appalachia) A form of cornbread made without milk or eggs.


scuppernong

/ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɔŋ/

/ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɑŋ/

Named after the Scuppernong River and Lake in North Carolina near which the grapes were first found and cultivated. Probably from an Algonquian word. Both senses, "grape" and "wine", are first found in documents from the 1800s-1820s.

A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia).


grist

grist (countable and uncountable, plural grists)

From Middle English grist, gryst, from Old English grist, gyrst (“the action of grinding, corn for grinding, gnashing”), of obscure origin: possibly from a pre-Germanic substrate language, or from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *gredaną (“to crunch”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub, grind”). Cognate with Old Saxon gristgrimmo (“gnashing of the teeth”), German Griesgram (“a grumbler, a grouch, peevishness, misery”), Old English gristel (“gristle”).

cog

Matter, as wise logicians say, / Cannot without a form subsist; / And form, say I, as well as they, / Must fail if matter brings no grist.

1719, Jonathan Swift, “The Progress of Beauty”, in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., volume 1:

(colloquial, obsolete) Supply; provision.


sea grape

en-noun

sea grape (countable and uncountable, plural sea grapes)

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

Seaweeds in the genus Caulerpa, eaten in Southeast Asia, especially Caulerpa lentillifera and Caulerpa racemosa.


pari-mutuel

pari-mutuel (plural pari-mutuels or paris-mutuels)

pari-mutuels (plural)
paris-mutuels (plural)

There is also a pari-mutuel option. You and a friend can wager that you will each lose 15 pounds over the next two months. If you both succeed, the money is returned. But if one fails while the other succeeds, then the loser pays the winner. If you both fail, then the one who loses the most is the winner.

2008, Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff, The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life, W.W Norton & Company, p. 208

(horse racing) Any betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and a house take are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets.


chokecherry

From choke + cherry, so called from the extreme astringency of the fresh fruit.

The youngster-loved chokecherry grows both as a bushy shrub and as a tree seldom higher than 22 feet, its branches bending with clusters of darkening red or blackish purple berrylike drupes . . .

1981, Bradford Angier, Field Guide to Medicinal Wild Plants:

Prunus virginiana
Prunus virginiana#Translingual

Any of several American wild cherry trees, especially Prunus virginiana.

черемха

Canada [by analogy with European bird cherry]


calamondin

Citrus × microcarpa
Citrus × microcarpa#Translingual

Citrofortunella mitis
Citrofortunella mitis

A small decorative evergreen citrus tree, of the hybrid Citrus × microcarpa (syn. ×Citrofortunella mitis), sometimes cultivated for its fruit.


McIntosh

en-proper noun

McIntosh (countable and uncountable, plural McIntoshes)

Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac an Tòisiche.

A number of places in the United States:

A city, the county seat of Corson County, South Dakota.


mashed potatoes

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Mashed potatoes is (or are) my favorite starch dish.

(uncountable or in the plural) A dish consisting of potatoes that have been boiled, mashed to a pulpy consistency, and mixed with such ingredients as butter or milk.


cherry blossom

en-noun

cherry blossom (countable and uncountable, plural cherry blossoms)

The blossom or flower of the cherry tree, particularly the Japanese cherry (Prunus serrulata).


fumed oak

[…] the lower half of a fumed-oak newel post.

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

oak that has been exposed to ammonia fumes to darken its color.


jojo

Reportedly coined on the spot by an employee of the Flavor-Crisp pressure fryer company at a Chicago trade show in the early 1960s. The potatoes were used to "clean the grease" between demonstrations of cooking chicken and fish, but customers unexpectedly started eating and enjoying them, leading someone to inquire what they were called.

If you're really hungry, be sure to try the wood-fired jojos (potato wedges).

2002, Karl Samson, Jane Aukshunas, Frommer's Washington State, page 288:

The cheesy jojos threaten to colonize every inch of my appetite but I hold back by only eating them once I am nearly full.

2011, Marissa Guggiana, Off the Menu: Staff Meals from America's Top Restaurants, page 223:

And perhaps George's best (un)kept secret is its fried chicken and jojos, which give Reel M Inn a run for its money.

2023, Andrea Damewood, "George's Corner Tavern", Willamette Week (Willamette, OR), 20 September 2023, page 11

(Northwestern US, British Columbia, chiefly in the plural) A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge.


dittany

dittany (countable and uncountable, plural dittanies)

From Old French ditan (French dictame), from Latin dictamnum, from Ancient Greek δίκταμνον (díktamnon), reportedly from Δίκτη (Díktē, “Dicte”), a mountain in Crete on whose slopes the plant grew.

common dittany, stone mint, frost mint, American dittany

(US) A fragrant herb in the mint family native to the eastern United States (Cunila origanoides).


mashed potato

mashed potato (countable and uncountable, plural mashed potatoes)

“I would like a little lamb and some mashed potatoes,” said the diner to the waiter. The waiter called back to the kitchen: “One lamb and one mashed potato.”

1924 May 3, “Lucid Intervals”, in George D[ePui] Mitchell, editor, The Pathfinder, 21st year, number 1583, Washington, D.C.: The Pathfinder Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:

‘You get used to the non-stop chattering and teasing,’ said Sorcha, with four-year-old Finn beside her, eagerly eating mashed potato and his own mini portion of turkey.

2014, Cathy Kelly, chapter 5, in It Started With Paris, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 73:

I believe I want a steak, well done, steamed broccoli and a mashed potato. For my appetizer I want clam chowder.

2019 December 27, Michael Fountain, “The Cruise”, in Brass September, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, book 2:

(usually uncountable) Alternative form of mashed potatoes (“a dish consisting of potatoes that have been boiled, mashed to a pulpy consistency, and mixed with such ingredients as butter or milk”).


Cadillac

From French Cadillac, from Occitan Cadilhac.
Most places or objects named Cadillac are named for Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, a French explorer who founded the eponymous city in Maine and later the city of Detroit, Michigan.

A city, the county seat of Wexford County, Michigan, United States.


canistel

From dialectal variant of Spanish canastillo (“small basket”), from Latin canistellum, diminutive of canistrum (“basket”).

A tropical tree, Pouteria campechiana, from Central America and the Caribbean, that bears a sweet oval fruit.

The fruit of this tree, having a musky odour.


boscage

boscage (countable and uncountable, plural boscages)

From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).

der

(law) Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.


milo

en-noun

milo (countable and uncountable, plural milos)

Probably related to Portuguese milho (“millet”). In early European accounts, millet and sorghum were often confused.

When he does talk, it's always about the farm: the milo is doing poorly this year, the corn has a blight[…]


cornball

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How large and inviting were the cornballs that piled the platter, and how crisp and glossy the braids and twists of molasses candy that mother and cousin had made when the little ones were snug in bed.

A ball of popped corn stuck together with soft candy from molasses or sugar.

(US, informal) An unsophisticated person.

Who's this cornball, man?

(US, African-American Vernacular, informal) A corny person; an uncool, stupid, or lame person.


currycomb

en-verb

currycomb (third-person singular simple present currycombs, present participle currycombing, simple past and past participle currycombed)

currycombs (present singular third-person)
currycombing (participle present)
currycombed (participle past)
currycombed (past)

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(transitive) To groom using such a comb.


beer nut

Possibly from the US trademark Beer Nuts (named for their intended use as a snack with beer), though the US brand is not sold in Australia.

Stanley crumbled the husk of a beer nut between his thumb and middle finger.

1984, Steve Katz, Mongolian Whiskey: Stolen Stories, page 37:

For instance, there's Phillip's opinion of chocolate: to him, it's just another snack—like beer nuts or a piece of fruit.

2006, Robin McGraw, Inside My Heart: Choosing to Live with Passion and Purpose, page 28:

At the end of the party, the parents of the birthday boy handed me a party bag and my prize: a bag of beer nuts. I've since wondered what kind of parent would possibly give an eight-year-old beer nuts, but whatever. It was the seventies.

2008, Tim Schenck, What Size are God's Shoes?: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life, page 37:

(Australia) A peanut served with its husk (but not its shell).


batology

From Ancient Greek βάτος (bátos, “blackberry”) + -ology.

uder

[…]more than another that has always been clearly recognized by British botanists, it is R. leucostachys, in spite of the various forms, which, before they were detected as hybrids, were often a puzzle to our predecessors in British batology.

1905, Berthold Seemann, editor, Journal of Botany: British and Foreign, volume 43, page 202:

Further knowledge of Rubus plant geography is steadily emerging, particular[ly] as co-workers such as D. Grant and T. Schofield are also contributing substantially to Yorkshire batology.

1999, The Naturalist, volumes 124-127, page 112:

In Species Plantarum, in 1753, Linnaeus identified two European species of Rubus within the large five-petaled family Rosa, thus beginning one of taxonomy′s largest studies — batology.

2005, Lisa Robertson, “Rubus Armeniacus: A Common Architectural Decorative Motif in the Temperate Mesophytic Region”, in Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, page 125:

(botany) The scientific study of plants in the genus Rubus, commonly known as brambles.


butternut

en-noun

butternut (countable and uncountable, plural butternuts)

He made a delicious butternut soup.

Butternut squash
butternut squash#English

(informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.


bird pepper

Capsicum baccatum
Capsicum baccatum#Translingual

A tropical American plant, Capsicum baccatum.


pacer

In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on one side take a step together alternating with the legs on the other side; as opposed to a trotter.


limequat

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A citrus tree, a cross between a lime and a kumquat, Citrus × floridana


orangequat

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Citrus aurantium
Citrus aurantium#Translingual

A citrus tree, a cross between an orange and a kumquat


guarana

From Brazilian Portuguese guaraná, from Guaraní guara-ná, from Sateré-Mawé warana.

A tree, Paullinia cupana, native to Venezuela and northern Brazil.


iyokan

A citrus fruit from Japan, with a more bitter taste than an orange, Citrus × iyo.


jackfruit

jackfruit (plural jackfruits or jackfruit)

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From Portuguese jaca (“jackfruit”), from Malayalam ചക്ക (cakka) / Tamil சக்கை (cakkai).

Artocarpus heterophyllus
Artocarpus heterophyllus#Translingual

A tree, Artocarpus heterophyllus, of the Moraceae family, which produces edible fruit.


korlan

Nephelium hypoleucum, a tropical tree of the Sapindaceae family.


mamoncillo

Melicoccus bijugatus, a tree of the Sapindaceae family, native to Central and South America.


olivewood

olivewood (countable and uncountable, plural olivewoods)

Any of several ornamental trees of the genus Cassine.


purpleheart

purpleheart (countable and uncountable, plural purplehearts)

(countable) A large tropical tree, of the genus Peltogyne, native to parts of South America and the West Indies

pau-violeta

a large tropical tree, of the genus Peltogyne, native to parts of South America and the West Indies


quetsch

quetsch (countable and uncountable, plural quetsches)

From French quetsche, from Lorraine German Quetsche (standard German Zwetschge), ultimately from Latin damascēna. Doublet of damson.


whitewood

whitewood (countable and uncountable, plural whitewoods)

Any of several deciduous trees, some used for furniture, as the tulip tree.

Terminalia buceras (black olive, gregory wood), a Caribbean tree

Coccoloba krugii (whitewood seagrape), of the neotropics

Petrobium atboreum (Saint Helena whitewood), an endemic tree of the island of St Helena

Elaeocarpus kirtonii (brown-heart quandong, mountain beech, Mowbullan whitewood, pigeonberry ash, silver quandong, white quandong, white beech), an Australian rainforest tree

Elaeocarpus obovatus (blueberry-ash), freckled oliveberry, grey carrobean, hard quandong), an Australian rainforest tree

Liriodendron tulipifera
Liriodendron tulipifera#Translingual

Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip poplar), a large flowering tree of North America.

Tabebuia heterophylla (white cedar), of the Caribbean and South America.

The wood of these trees or of spruce (Picea spp.)


bamboo shoot

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(chiefly in the plural) The edible shoot of any of several species of bamboo (especially of the genera Dendrocalamus and Phyllostachys), cooked and eaten as a vegetable in Chinese and similar cuisine.


equestrianism

equestrianism (usually uncountable, plural equestrianisms)

The art or sport of horseriding; the skill required for it.


dillseed

The pungent seed of the dill plant, used as a flavouring.


malanga

Any of several Central and South American plants, of the genus Xanthosoma; yautia.


black raspberry

black raspberry (countable and uncountable, plural black raspberries)

A plant belonging to either of two closely related species, Rubus leucodermis or Rubus occidentalis, both native to North America.


common bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

An herbaceous annual plant (Phaseolus vulgaris), grown for its edible bean.


teff

teff (countable and uncountable, plural teffs)

Eragrostis tef
Eragrostis tef#Translingual

A love grass, Eragrostis tef, with small seeds, grown as a cereal and for forage in Ethiopia and parts of Arabia.


haricot

From French haricot, from Middle French haricot, a deverbal derivation of Old French harigoter (“to tear up, shred, slice up, slice into pieces”), from Frankish *hariōn (“to ruin, lay waste, ravage, plunder, destroy”), from Proto-Germanic *harjōną (“to plunder, lay waste, harry”). Cognate with Middle High German verheeren (“to harry”), Old English herġian (“to lay waste, ravage, plunder”). More at harry.

cog

/ˈhæɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/

/ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.kəʊ/

/ˈɑːɹ.ɪ.koʊ/


harness racing

A form of horse racing in which the horses race in a specified gait, usually pulling two-wheeled carts called sulkies.


fingerling

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From Middle English fyngyrlynge, equivalent to finger + -ling, from having the size of a human finger.

Oh, but those little crab-lingered fingerlings really wanted to get in! Now some were trying to claw up through an old knothole whose bole had aged and didn’t sit true in the plank. […] But here came the dwarf opening her door, and the spiderlets melted away.

2011, Gregory Maguire, “The Patchwork Conscience of Oz”, in Out of Oz (The Wicked Years), New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 160:

(by extension) Any finger-sized version of something typically larger.


aralia

en-noun

aralia (countable and uncountable, plural aralias)

Spikenard and any of many related ornamental and food plants, of the genus Aralia, from Asia and the Americas.

aralia

any of the ornamental and food plants of the genus Aralia


Shiraz

A major city in Fars province, in southern Iran, near the remains of Persepolis.


epazote

From Spanish epazote, from Classical Nahuatl epazōtl.

Dysphania ambrosioides
Dysphania ambrosioides#Translingual

A pungent herb used in Latin-American cooking and tea making, and in folk medicine; Dysphania ambrosioides.


brinjal

/ˈbɹɪnd͡ʒəl/

/ˈbɹɪnd͡ʒɒl/

Etymology tree
Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtVder.
Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa)bor.
Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān)bor.
Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān)bor.
Old Galician-Portuguese berengenha
Portuguese beringelabor.
English brinjal
Borrowed from Portuguese beringela, from Old Galician-Portuguese berengenha, borrowed from Arabic بَاذِنْجَان (bāḏinjān), borrowed from Classical Persian بَاذِنْگَان (bāzingān), borrowed from Sanskrit वातिङ्गण (vātiṅgaṇa), from Proto-Dravidian *waẓVtV. Doublet of aubergine.

etymon

Hindustan produces abundance of wheat, and throughout India the natives are plentifully supplied with vegetables and fruit; the brinjal, tomato, yam, carrot, radish, onion, garlic, spinach cabbage, nowkohl, cucumbers, and other gourds, may be mentioned among the former

1858, George Trevor, India, an historical sketch, page 14:

(South Asia, Malaysia, South Africa, Singapore) An aubergine or eggplant.


seed corn

(agriculture) Seed that is saved from one year's harvest for the subsequent year's planting, rather than being used to make flour etc.


grandsire

From Middle English graunsire; compare grand and sire.

paternal grandfather
paternal grandfather

(equestrianism) The sire of a sire, paternal grandfather


dolcetto

en-noun

dolcetto (countable and uncountable, plural dolcettos or dolcetti)

/dɒlˈtʃɛtəʊ/

Borrowed from Italian, a diminutive of dolce (“sweet”). Doublet of dulcet and doucet.

A grape variety from Piedmont, used to make a red wine.


broadleaf

broadleaf (countable and uncountable, plural broadleafs or broadleaves)

broadleafs (plural)
broadleaves (plural)

Terminalia catappa
Terminalia catappa#Translingual

A tree (Terminalia latifolia, now Terminalia catappa) of Jamaica.

A type of tobacco having broad leaves, used for making cigars.


marasca

Prunus cerasus
Prunus cerasus#Translingual

A European cultivar of the wild cherry, Prunus cerasus, that bears bright red fruit used for making maraschino.


estragon

estragon (countable and uncountable, plural estragons)

Borrowed from French estragon (“tarragon”). Doublet of tarragon.


umbellifer

Any plant of the family Apiaceae, also called Umbelliferae, whose inflorescence is an umbel, such as a carrot or celery.

skærmplante

any plant of the family Apiaceae/Umbelliferae


peperoncini

Stir in sugar, parsley and peperoncini.

2007 February 21, “Recipe: Zappa Family Spaghetti Sauce”, in New York Times:

A spicy variety of pepper used in Greek and Italian cuisine.


sweetleaf

sweetleaf (countable and uncountable, plural sweetleafs)

Any plant of the genus Stevia, from which stevia is extracted.

Sauropus androgynus, a plant of the family Phyllanthaceae whose leaves may be used as a potherb.

Symplocos tinctoria, an evergreen shrub or small tree in the southeastern United States.

Monarda fistulosa
Monarda fistulosa#Translingual

Monarda fistulosa, wild bergamot, a medicinal and ornamental herb.


baneberry

red baneberry)

Actaea rubra (syn. Actaea erythrocarpa); chinaberry

A flowering plant of the genus Actaea (syn. Cimicifuga).


whortleberry

An alteration of Middle English hurtilbery, hurtil-beri (see English hurtleberry), analysable as whortle + berry. Compare English huckleberry.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium:

Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or blue whortleberry);

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea#Translingual

Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or red whortleberry);

Vaccinium uliginosum
Vaccinium uliginosum#Translingual

Vaccinium uliginosum (bog whortleberry or bilberry).


tomatillo

tomatillo (plural tomatillos or tomatilloes)

tomatillos (plural)
tomatilloes (plural)

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Borrowed from Spanish tomatillo, diminutive of tomate (“tomato”), ultimately from Classical Nahuatl tomatl.

A plant of the nightshade family originating in Mexico, Physalis philadelphica, cultivated for its tomato-like green to green-purple fruit surrounded by a thin papery skin.


delicata

So named because of its delicate skin that does not need to be peeled before cooking and can be eaten.

But once you've tasted the sweet flesh of a delicata or slipped the strands of a spaghetti squash out of its shell, you'll never again regard winter squash as merely an agricultural art piece.

1992 October 13, Nanette Blanchard, “Autumn's Glory”, in Vegetarian Times, page 67:

You will need one medium butternut or two or three delicatas.

2004, Jack Bishop, Richard G. Jung, “Winter Squash Risotto with Sage and Parmesan”, in A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen, →ISBN, page 354:

The best winter squashes (delicata, for example) have edible skins and are amazing just chunked and roasted with a little oil[…].

2009 January 17, Mark Bittman, “Stale spices, canned beans are no-nos for new year”, in Toronto Star:

(Canada, US) An heirloom variety of winter squash, oblong in shape and having a cream-colored skin with green stripes


daikon

Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus L.H. Bailey

Jiko was washing these big white daikons, and I was cutting them up and salting them and putting them into plastic freezer bags.

2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 188:

Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus#Translingual

Raphanus sativus
Raphanus sativus#Translingual

An East Asian cultivar or subspecies of garden radish (Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus, syn. Raphanus sativus) bearing a large, white, carrot-shaped taproot consumed throughout East and South Asia but grown in North America primarily as a fallow crop for its fast-growing leaves (used as animal fodder) and as a soil ripper.

(Japanese cuisine) The usual Japanese cultivar, Japanese radish.


isot

From Turkish isot, from ısı (“heat”) + ot (“grass”).

The best time to dry isot in Urfa is between September and November when the sun is less hot.

2015 October 6, Engin Akin, Essential Turkish Cuisine, Abrams, →ISBN, page 28:

For this purpose, inhibitory effects on the Helicobacter pylori urease of ethanolic extracts of spices such as thyme, clove, isot pepper, turmeric, mint, black sesame and cinnamon purchased from herbalist were investigated as a screening study.

2017 May 12, Mehmet Kemal, Sevgi Kolayli, Şengül Alpay Karaoğlu, Nimet Baltaş, “The Role of Spices in the Treatment of Heliobacter Pylori”, in Abstract Book of I. International Congress of Medical and Aromatic Plants: "Natural and Healthy Life", →ISBN, page 1100:

Şanlıurfa was a hub for the barter of sheep and goats into and out of the Middle East; its famed isot pepper was an import from present-day Syria.

2017 October 10, Robyn Eckhardt, Istanbul and Beyond: Exploring the Diverse Cuisines of Turkey, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 210:


chiltepin

From Nahuatl; the first element is chilli (“pepper”), the second is tecpin (“flea”).

A wild chile pepper variety, Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum, found in Mexico and the southwestern US.


Donovan

From Irish Ó Donndubháin (“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”), from donn (“brown”) and dubh (“black”).

bor

A village in Beaver Township, Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.


genipap

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jenipapo, from Old Tupi îanypaba. The Tupi meaning of the word is variously given as yandi-pawa or yandi-pab (“fruit for painting”), yandi-ibá-pab (“fruit of the extremities for painting”), and without citation or explanation, “breast of an old woman”.

bor+

Genipap is wild and cultivated in many parts of the Amazon, especially on floodplains, from the river's mouth to the Andean foothills in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.

2023, Nigel Smith, Amazon Fruits: An Ethnobotanical Journey, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 1109:

The North and South American tree Genipa americana of the family Rubiaceae.