henbit

A translation of Middle Low German or Dutch Hoenderbeet, from the name Almaignes Hoenderbeet.

Lamium amplexicaule, an annual plant with pink or purple flowers and deeply crenate leaves.

Henbit (disambiguation)
Lamium amplexicaule


pipeweed

putki

any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes

The ſtories told by one and another of theſe adventurers, had made a deep impreſſion on the mind of VValter Pipevveed, one of John [Bull]'s domeſtics, a fellovv of a roving and projecting diſpoſition, and vvho had learned the art of ſurveying.

[1792, [Jeremy Belknap], “Letter I. Original State of the Forest.—The Adventures of Walter Pipeweed, and Cecilius Peterson.”, in The Foresters, an American Tale: […], Boston, Mass.: […] I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, […], →OCLC, pages 5–6:

He produced a small leather bag full of tobacco. 'We have heaps of it, […] It was Pippin who found two small barrels, washed up out of some cellar or store-house, I suppose. When we opened them, we found they were filled with this: as fine a pipe-weed as you could wish for, and quite unspoilt.'

1954 November 11, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “Flotsam and Jetsam”, in The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1965, →ISBN, book III, page 167:

I took the pipe and sniffed. Pipeweed had the aroma of the finest Moroccan Mauve. I inhaled. It was strong stuff.

1969, Michael Kurland, chapter 5, in The Unicorn Girl (The Greenwich Village Trilogy; 2), Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, published 2019, →ISBN, page 62:

Over the dimming fire, the old man tossed him a small box, carved with similar markings. Inside, Amarden found two pouches, one containing ordinary pipeweed. The other pouch was gray, ahd a silver string to draw it shut, and contained a fine silvery substance. […] "What is this?" / "Pipeweed, of course!" he said from between teeth clenching his pipe. / "It looks like silver dust."

2010, Arnan Heyden, “The Powers that Be”, in Daughters of Agendale: The Legend of Eloeen, Maitland, Fla.: Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 38:

(smoking) Tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; also, the leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use.

pijpkruid

tobacco prepared for smoking in a pipe; leaves of herbs or other plants prepared for such use

Native American
Native American#Adjective

Any of a number of plants having thin and straight stems resembling pipes, often hollow or lacking branches.

(specifically, US) The desert trumpet (Eriogonum inflatum) which has a straight stem with a swollen portion; formerly some Native American tribes in the Las Vegas Valley area turned such stems into pipes for smoking by removing the stem at the base and cutting the swollen portion in half to serve as a bowl.

Fistulária […] Pipe-vveed; ſo called becauſe its ſtalk is hollovv.

1797, W[illiam] Turton, “Fistulária”, in A Medical Glossary: […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 332:

The redrattle (Pedicularis flammea), a parasitic plant having hollow stems.


porret

From Middle English poret, from Old French por(r)et, porete, from Medieval Latin porretum. See porraceous.

Why garlic, molyes, and porrets have white roots, deep green leaves, and black seeds?

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:


unbit

en-verb

unbit (third-person singular simple present unbits, present participle unbitting, simple past and past participle unbitted)

unbits (present singular third-person)
unbitting (participle present)
unbitted (participle past)
unbitted (past)

(equestrianism, transitive) to remove the bit from (a horse's mouth)


pityroid

en-adj

pityroid (comparative more pityroid, superlative most pityroid)

more pityroid (comparative)
most pityroid (superlative)

From Ancient Greek πίτυρον (píturon, “bran”) + -oid.

The ointment may also be applied drugs about whose ultimate destiny in the in pityroid and seborrhoic alopecia

Having the form of, or resembling, bran.


bitterweed

Any plant in the genus Ambrosia, especially Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed).


tunhoof

From Middle English tun-hōve, from Old English tūnhōfe from tūn + hōfe (“ground ivy”).

Glechoma hederacea
Glechoma hederacea#Translingual


sauvignon

Any of several grape varieties and associated wines originally from France


winter squash

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So called because they are typically harvested in autumn/fall to be stored during winter.

Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maxima#Translingual

Any of numerous cultivars of four species of summer-growing vegetable of the genus Cucurbita

Cucurbita moschata
Cucurbita moschata#Translingual

Cucurbita pepo
Cucurbita pepo#Translingual


frisée

en-noun

frisée (countable and uncountable, plural frisées)

Curly endive, a variety of endive, Cichorium endivia var. crispum.


cow parsnip

Any umbelliferous plant of genus Heracleum.


sorb apple

Sorbus domestica
Sorbus domestica#Translingual

A European fruit tree, Sorbus domestica, also called the service tree


bullwort

Bullwort is a difficult-to-control weed: in cereals, only sulfonylureas are effective.

2017, Michel Beckert, Yves Dessaux, Effects of Herbicide-Tolerant Crop Cultivation:


May Duke

Corruption of Médoc, the province in France where it is supposed to have originated.

Prunus cerasus
Prunus cerasus#Translingual

A large dark-red variety of cherry, cross between Prunus avium and Prunus cerasus.


amelcorn

From German Amelkorn: compare Middle High German amel, amer (“spelt”) and Latin amylum (“starch”), from Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon).

Triticum spelta
Triticum spelta#Translingual


thoroughwax

An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.


bupleurum

Any of the genus Bupleurum of apiaceous plants.


hartwort

hartwort (usually uncountable, plural hartworts)

Tordylium maximum
Tordylium maximum#Translingual

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Tordylium maximum) or any plant of genus Tordylium.


nicker nut

(archaic) The rounded seed of the nicker tree.


lady's cushion

lady's cushion (plural ladies' cushions)

A herb, the thrift (Armeria maritima) that grows in dense tufts.


countertime

countertime (countable and uncountable, plural countertimes)

From counter- + time. Compare contretemps.

(equestrianism, obsolete) The resistance of a horse that interrupts its cadence and the measure of its manège, caused by bad horsemanship or the bad temper of the horse.


catchweight

They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks.

1976 December 3, “Oldtimers race is well received”, in El Paso Herald-Post:

to ride catchweight

(horse racing) Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.


alkekengi

Through French alkékenge, Spanish alquequenje, from Arabic كَاكَنْج (kākanj).


air jacket

1765, George Alexander Stevens, The Celebrated Lecture on Heads, London: R. Richards, Part 3, p. 16,
[…] our army all should wear a new uniform; all our horse infantry should wear air jackets, and all our foot cavalry should wear cork waistcoats; and then ye know why they’d be all over the sea before you could say Jack Robinson.

Anna Sparks shrugged into her air jacket and slipped her bib over the top of it. There was a time when she'd have felt invincible in the lead-up to the cross-country, especially if she'd posted a personal best of 40.3 to lie third behind David Powell and Sam Tide after the dressage, but today nerves roared through her system like ocean waves, building and crashing.

2014, Lauren St John, The One Dollar Horse:

If a competitor chooses to wear an inflatable air jacket during the cross country phase it must be placed over the top of a body protector, whereas in the other phases/other disciplines the air jacket can be worn without a body protector.

2017, Guy N. Rutty, Essentials of Autopsy Practice, page 94:

(equestrianism) An inflatable vest worn to cushion falls.


Guatemala grass

Guatemala grass (countable and uncountable, plural Guatemala grasses)

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


calambac

Borrowed from French calambac, from Malay kalambaq (“a kind of fragrant wood”).


olusatrum

From Latin holusatrum, olusatrum, from olus (“garden herb”) + ater (“black”).

(archaic) An umbelliferous plant, the common alexanders, found in Western Europe (Smyrnium olusatrum).


chess-apple

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Sorbus torminalis
Sorbus torminalis#Translingual

(archaic) The wild service tree of Europe (Sorbus torminalis).


primordian

From Latin primordius (“first of all”), from primordium.

red primordian

amber primordian

white primordian


eryngo

en-noun

eryngo (countable and uncountable, plural eryngos or eryngoes)

Ultimately from Latin ēryngion, from Ancient Greek ἠρύγγιον (ērúngion), from ἤρυγγος (ḗrungos).

For some ordinary broths made of Eringos or Sea-Holme, and Burstwort, which twice or thrice I have swallowed downe at the request of some Ladies, who, more kindely then my disease is unkind, offred me the moity of theirs, have equally seemed unto me as easie to take as unprofitable in operation.

1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.13:

Any other plant of the same genus, Eryngium.


spicewood

Lindera benzoin
Lindera benzoin#Translingual

An American shrub, the spicebush (Lindera benzoin), whose bark has a citrusy taste and odor.


interspecific plum

interspecific plum (plural interspecific plums)

A pluot or any of the other experimental or proprietary plum-apricot hybrid plants and their fruit.


peacotum

A blend of peach, apricot, and plum. A trademark.

A hybrid species of peach, apricot, and plum lineage.


pinder

Via Gullah from Kongo mpinda (“peanut”), also borrowed in Dutch as pinda.

(US, dialectal, especially Southern US) A peanut, the nut-like pod containing the edible seed(s) of a leguminous plant.

Arachis hypogaea
Arachis hypogaea#Translingual

(US, dialectal, especially Southern US) The plant, Arachis hypogaea, that bears peanuts.


pinder

From Middle English pindere, pyndere, pundere, pendere, from Old English *pyndere, from Old English pyndan (“pen up”), from pund (“pound, enclosure”). Equivalent to pend (“to pen”) + -er.

(obsolete) One who impounds; a poundkeeper.


mustaiba

Mustaiba, from the Brazils and Rio Janeiro, is imported in logs 7 by 10 in., and also in planks; it is generally of an inferior rosewood character but harder, and is sometimes equally good;

1843, John Forbes Royle, Descriptive Catalogue of the Woods Commonly Employed in this Country for the Mechanical and Ornamental Arts:

King-wood, Maracaybo wood, and Mustaiba wood, all imported from Brazil, and Nicaragua wood from Central America, are of unknown botanical origin.

1871, Robert Main Admiralty, A manual of scientific enquiry, page 391:

Amongst some of the rarer and more beautifully marked woods, used in small quantities, are the following: Mustaiba, Peruvian, Rosetta, Palmyra, Pheasant Wood, Snakewood, Partridge Wood, Purple Wood, Yacca Wood, Princes Wood.

1899, Frederick Litchfield, Illustrated History of Furniture, page 262:

There are some remarkable instances of specialization - Mustaiba, for instance, was imported for the manufacture of the handles of flaziers' knives at Sheffield, Padauk for piano-cases, and Jarrah for London pavements.

1976 July, Barbara Strang, “The Influence of International Trade on the English Language”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, page 433:

A close-grained, heavy wood from Brazil, used in turning, for making the handles of tools, etc.


cavendish

Possibly from the name of the original manufacturer.

"But the managers seem inclined to cut their cavendish very fine just at present," she said.

1919, Richard Harding Davis, The Exiles and Other Stories:

No man less; only he (not Vieuxbois, but his younger brother) has found a wide-awake cooler than an iron kettle, and travels by rail when he is at home; and when he was in the Crimea, rode a shaggy pony, and smoked cavendish all through the battle of Inkermann." "

1901, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Volume I:

Then burn equal parts of cavendish tobacco and old shoeleather in an iron vessel till charred.

1896, anonymous author, The Ladies Book of Useful Information:

It was always an augury of foul weather in Livingstone's temper when, instead of the decent evening cigar, he smoked the short black brule-gueule, loaded to the muzzle with cavendish.

1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone;:

Come, I'll trate ye to a taste o' me cavendish, which is better than growlin' in yer hammock at the muskaities, poor things, as don't know no better."

Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.


santalum

From Medieval Latin sandalum, santalum. See sandal.

(botany) Any of the genus Santalum of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers.


cocoyam

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From coco + yam, because old cocoyam was planted in coconut groves and resembled yams. New cocoyam was so named because it resembled old cocoyam.

Ampesi, intensely flavored stews or soups, are eaten with fufu, a firm, starchy dumpling made from plantains or cocoyam.

2007 March 30, “Street Level”, in Chicago Reader:

Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Xanthosoma sagittifolium#Translingual

New cocoyam: Xanthosoma, particularly Xanthosoma sagittifolium, or the edible root of that plant; malanga.


seek-no-further

Any of a number of kinds of North American apples, such as the Rambo apple or the Westfield Seek-No-Further


skirret

skirret (countable and uncountable, plural skirrets)

From Dutch suikerwortel (literally “sugar-root”).

der

An umbelliferous plant (Sium sisarum), cultivated for its sweet edible tuberous roots.


reinette

Coordinate term: pippin

Make choice of some small reinette apples, pare them, and prick them thoroughly with a coarse needle to render them as absorbent as possible; put them into a jar to stand inside a saucepan of boiling water, […]

1865, Georgiana Hill, How to Cook Apples: Shown in a Hundred Different Ways of Dressing that Fruit, page 48:

Then a flameproof casserole dish–preferably the flat type peculiar to Normandy–should be lined with sliced apple and onion. Reinette apples are supposed to be the best.

2011, Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:

Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.


potatoe

Mr. Hyett submitted to the meeting the following account of a series of experiments which he had tried upon the cultivation of the potatoe during the season just ended[…]

1842, William Henry Hyett, “Experiments on the growth of the Potatoe”, in Journal of the Farmers' Club:

The Potatoe now in use, (Solanum tuberosum,) was brought to England by the Colonists sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh[…]

1846, Charles Palfray Bosson, chapter I, in Observations on the Potatoe, and a Remedy for the Potatoe Plague, page 3:

The potatoe plant in a state of health contains several ingredients, the most important of which are starch, albumen, and solanine.

1846, Alfred Smee, chapter III, in The potatoe plant, its uses and properties: together with the cause of the present malady, page 33:

On Tuesday, the 7th of August, about six, P.M., I was summoned to attend Miss M. E. H., aged 14, the messenger stating she had eaten the berries of the potatoe plant, portions of which she showed me.

1859 September 3, Thomas Morris, “Case of poisoning by potatoe-berries”, in British Medical Journal, →DOI, page 719:


potato onion

A variety of onion, similar to the shallot but producing larger bulbs.


multiplier onion

en-noun

multiplier onion (plural multiplier onions)


anchovy pear

A fruit, similar to mango in taste, from this tree


shampoo ginger

shampoo ginger (countable and uncountable, plural shampoo gingers)

Zingiber zerumbet
Zingiber zerumbet#Translingual

An Asian and Polynesian plant related to ginger, Zingiber zerumbet, whose inflorescence contains a substance used as a shampoo.


sicklewort

A plant of the genus Coronilla (especially, Coronilla scorpioides), with curved pods.

Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris#Translingual


alehoof

From Middle English ale-hōve from ale (it was used in beer and ale before the introduction of hops) + hōve (“ground-ivy”) (from Old English hōfe (“ground-ivy”)).


Chasselas

Named after a village in France, Chasselas, Saône-et-Loire


shellbark

A hickory of species (Carya laciniosa), wihh outer bark loose and peeling.


thick wind

(archaic, equestrianism, patholgy) A defect of respiration in a horse, not associated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.


hen's-foot

An umbelliferous plant, Caucalis platycarpos.


Bonchrétien

Any of several varieties of pear, such as the Williams pear.


baldmoney

Apparently a corruption of Latin valdē bona (“very good”) (a plant mentioned in Leonhart Fuchs's Great Herbal). Earliest forms seem to come from an intermediate, unattested French form baudemoine (modern French baudremoine) and by analogy to the plant name agrimony.

Gentius king of Illyria was the first founder of this herbe, and the first that used it in medicine, for which cause it was called Gentian after his own name: in Greek, γεντιανή, which name also the apothecaries retaine unto this daie, and call it Gentiana: it is named in English Felwoort Gentian; Bitterwoort; Baldmoyne, and Baldmoney.

1597, John Gerard, Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, Chapter 100: Of Felwoort, or Baldmoney , pages 350–352:

(obsolete) A Gentianeae tribe plant, gentian or felwort.


spignel

spignel (countable and uncountable, plural spignels)

Berlin Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum

Either:
* an alteration of Middle English spigurnel (“unidentified broomlike flowering plant with medicinal uses”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman spigurnel, spigurnelle, and Anglo-Latin spigurnella, further etymology unknown; or
* from spike + nail, because of the shape of its capillary leaves.

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spigernel, spigernell, spigornol, spigurnelle, spikernel, sprigonell, spygernel, spygornoll, spygurnell, spykernell

I would gladly cõſẽt to thẽ yͭ holde yͭ yͤ herbe wich is called of the apothecaries feniculũ tortuoſum⸝ of yͤ Northẽ Engliſhe mẽ ſpiknel⸝ of the Duche mẽ berwurtz⸝ is yͤ true mew, if yͭ I could fynd any ſpicknel or berwurtz yͭ were of ij. cubites hygh. […] [W]here as the Mew of Mattiolus⸝ yͤ berwurtz of Germany & yͤ ſpiknel of Englãd (which peraduẽture was ones called Spiknard) haue a rough thyng like to the Iudiſh Spiknarde in the hygheſt parte of the root⸝ out of whiche the ſtalke cõmeth firſt furth⸝ the mew of Amatus hath yͤ ſame rough tuht lyke Spiknarde⸝ as he writeth in infirma parte⸝ in the loweſt parte of the roote⸝ which thyng if it be ſo⸝ neither Matthiolus nor I know the ryght mew; […]

1562, Wylliam Turner [i.e., William Turner], “Of the Herbe Called Meon or Mew”, in The Second Parte of Guilliam Turners Herball⸝ […], Cologne: […] Arnold Birckman, →OCLC, folio 56, verso:

I would gladly consent to them that hold that the herb which is called of the apothecaries feniculum tortuosum, of the Northern Englishmen spiknel, of the Dutchmen berwurtz, is the true mew, if that I could find any spicknel or berwurtz that were of two cubits high. […] [W]hereas the mew of Matthiolus [Pietro Andrea Mattioli], that berwurtz of Germany and that spiknel of England (which peradventure was once called spikenard) have a rough thing like to the Judish spikenard in the highest part of the root, out of which the stalk cometh first forth, the mew of Amatus [Amatus Lusitanus?] hath the same rough tuft like spikenard, as he writeth in infirma parte, in the lowest part of the root, which thing if it be so, neither Matthiolus nor I know the right mew; […]

The ſhops of the Low countries haue miſcalled it in times paſt by the name of Meum, & vſed it for the right Mew or Spiknell woort.

1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Wilde Parsley”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 867, column 2:

Meu or Spicknell is not found in Italy, unleſſe it be in ſome Phyſicians garden, and thoſe are very few that ſow or ſet it.

1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XX.] Of Meu, and Fenell, as well Gentle, Named Fœniculum; as Wild, which is Called Hippomarathrum, or Myrsineum: Of Hempe, and Fenell-geant: And of Thistles and Artichoux.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 2nd tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 77:

The Roots of common Spignel do ſpread much and deep in the ground, many ſtrings or branches growing from one Head which is hairy at the top, of a blackiſh brown colour on the outſide and white within, ſmelling well, and of an Aromatical taſt, from whence riſe ſundry long ſtalks of moſt fine cut Leaves like hairs, ſmaller than Dill, ſet thick on both ſides of the Stalks, and of a good ſcent. […] Galen ſaith, The Roots of Spignel are available to provoke Urine and Womans Courſes, but if too much thereof be taken it cauſeth Headach: […]

1652, Nich[olas] Culpeper, “Spignel”, in The English Physitian: Or An Astrologo-physical Discourse of the Vulgar Herbs of This Nation. […], London: […] Peter Cole, […], →OCLC, page 222, column 1:

Mew, Spiknel, wild Dill, an Herb with a Stalk and Leaves like Anis: It is good to expel Wind, and to force Urine; as alſo for Mother-fits, Gripes, &c.

1706, Edward Phillips, compiler, J[ohn] K[ersey the younger], “Meu or Meum”, in The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary. […], 6th edition, London: […] J. Phillips, […]; N. Rhodes, […]; and J. Taylor, […], →OCLC, column 2:

MEW, the Herb call'd alſo Spikenel and wild Dill.

1726, N[athan] Bailey, “MEW”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], 3rd edition, London: […] J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 1:

The Root ſpreadeth divers long Strings, blackiſh without, like the Meum, or Spicknel, and abideth many Years.

1728, R[ichard] Bradley, “Apium Sylvestre sive Thysselinum. Wild Milk Parsley.”, in Dictionarium Botanicum: Or, A Botanical Dictionary for the Use of the Curious in Husbandry and Gardening. […], volume I, London: […] T. Woodward […], and J. Peele […], →OCLC, column 2:

MEUM, […] Spignel.

1733, Philip Miller, “MEUM”, in The Gardeners Dictionary: […], 2nd edition, volume I, London: […] C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC, column 2:

Roots are more generally odorous than the stems of plants, which is owing to an essential oil. Thus, ginger, horse radish, valerian, spignel, and sweet cicely, are pungent and aromatic; the root of white hellebore is bitter and nauseous.

[1840], William Rhind, “The Roots of Plants”, in A History of the Vegetable Kingdom; Embracing the Physiology, Classification, and Culture of Plants, […], Glasgow, Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, […], →OCLC, page 18:

The root of the gout-weed (Ægopodium), of the meum or spignel, and of the sea-holly (Eryngium), have all of them been held in esteem for their aromatic stimulant properties.

1854, Spencer Thomson, “A Few Words on the Economic Properties of British Wild Plants”, in Wanderings among the Wild Flowers: How to See and How to Gather Them. […], London: Groombridge & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 306:

[T]he quacks who sell Mithridatic Lovage for Spignel deserve to be shown up.

1947, Charles E[arle] Raven, “William How and Christopher Merret”, in English Naturalists from Neckham to Ray: A Study of the Making of the Modern World, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, →OCLC, part D (The Explorers), page 299:

Croft Muickan […] from Creit Mhuiceann[…], croft of baldmoneys or spignels.

1984, Adam Watson, Elizabeth Allan, “Croft Muickan”, in The Place Names of Upper Deeside, Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, →ISBN, page 65, column 1:

Spignel (Meum athamanticum;[…]) is a characteristic species of many meadows of less fertile sites at higher altitudes.

1989, A. Reif, “The Vegetation of the Fichtelgebirge: Origin, Site Conditions, and Present Status”, in Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Otto L[udwig] Lange, Ram Oren, editors, Forest Decline and Air Pollution: A Study of Spruce (Pica abies) on Acid Soils (Ecological Studies; 77), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, →DOI, →ISBN, caption of figure 7, page 17:

Furthermore there was a garden, shining with different herbs, / in whose midst there was a limpid spring with fresh / water. With its water it nourished here garlic with spignels, / Cabbage, cress and turnips through an irrigating ditch.

2007, Sylvester Johannis Phrygius, “The Ecloga prima Print”, in Peter Sjökvist, transl., The Early Latin Poetry of Sylvester Johannis Phrygius […] (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: Studia Latina Upsaliensia [Journal of Uppsala University: Uppsala Latin Studies]; 31), Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 107, lines 18–20:

You pluck a goose while it yet lives, then you butter and lard it well. A duck will do, but there's more meat on a goose. You set it within a ring of fires, supplied with a bowl of water with salt and spikenel in it.

2015, Penelope Wilcock, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Thread (The Hawk & the Dove Series), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Lion Fiction, Lion Hudson, published 2016, →ISBN, page 140:

The spignel called Athamantic grows lavishly in Macedonia and Spain. In stalk and leaves it resembles the dill, but it is stouter than dill, shooting up to a height of about two cubits, spreading over its roots, which are delicate, horizontal and straight, long, aromatic, and warming the tongue.

2017, Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, “Book I”, in Lily Y. Beck, transl., De materia medica (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien [Classical Texts and Studies]; 38), 3rd edition, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony: Olms Weidmann, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 7:

Mū (spicknel). I never met anyone who knew it and I have never seen a vernacular name for it. I myself think that it is the plant called in the vernacular mwr'nh. […] Mū is an Arabicized form of the Greek μῆον, the name of spicknel (baldmoney; Meum athamanticum Jacq., Apiaceae).

2020, Marwān ibn Janāḥ [i.e., Jonah ibn Janah], “mīm”, in translated by Gerrit Bos and Fabian Käs, edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, Mailyn Lübke, and Guido Mensching, On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs (Kitāb al-Talkhīṣ) (Islamic History and Civilization; 170), volume 2, Leiden, Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, paragraph 561 (folio 511;17–v,8), page 731:

Meum athamanticum
Meum athamanticum#Translingual

Meum athamanticum, an ornamental plant in the Apiaceae family found in mountain areas in Central and Western Europe, with roots and feathery leaves used as food and for medicinal purposes.


Polynesian arrowroot

A plant with starchy tubers used like arrowroot, Tacca leontopetaloides


catsfoot

From cat's + foot. For its obsolete figurative sense, see cat's-paw.

...like the Monkey, that took the Cat's Foot to pull the Chesnut out of the Fire...

c. 1661, Argyle's Last Will in The Harleian Miscellany, Vol. VIII, p. 30

Synonym of cat's-paw: a foot of a cat; (figurative, obsolete) a person used unwittingly or through trickery by another.

cat's-paw

It is commonly called […] in English ground Iuie, Alehoofe, Gill creepe by ground, Tunehoofe, and Cats foote.

1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Ground Iuie, or Alefoot”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book II, page 705:

Synonym of ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea).

...an Infusion made with the Heads of White Poppies, Cat's-foot, Colt's-foot, and Maiden-hair.

1739, Henri François Le Dran, translated by John Sparrow, Observations in Surgery, page 119:

mountain cudweed
w:en:mountain everlasting

Antennaria dioica
Antennaria dioica#Translingual

Synonym of mountain cudweed (Antennaria dioica).


chili sauce

en-noun

chili sauce (countable and uncountable, plural chili sauces)


pepper sauce

pepper sauce (countable and uncountable, plural pepper sauces)


mad-apple

Because it was once thought to cause various diseases.


put someone through their paces

en-verb

put<,,put> (someone) through (their) paces

put (someone) through (their) paces (third-person singular simple present puts (someone) through (their) paces, present participle putting (someone) through (their) paces, simple past and past participle put (someone) through (their) paces)

put through paces (canonical)
puts (someone) through (their) paces (present singular third-person)
putting (someone) through (their) paces (participle present)
put (someone) through (their) paces (participle past)
put (someone) through (their) paces (past)

She put Rosebud through his paces in the ring, and received her share of applause at the antics of the clever horse.

1916, Vance Barnum, Joe Strong on the Trapeze:

(literally, equestrianism) To direct a horse to walk, canter, trot, etc.


cowish

An umbelliferous plant (Lomatium cous) with edible tuberous roots, found in Oregon, USA.


phasel

From Latin phaselus, phaseolus, from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “a kind of bean”). Compare French phaséole, faséole, English fesels.

der

(obsolete) The French bean, or kidney bean.


bishop's-wort

Nigella damascena
Nigella damascena#Translingual

fennel flower or devil-in-the-bush (Nigella damascena)


sea fennel

Crithmum maritimum
Crithmum maritimum#Translingual


hognut

(US) A pignut or hickory tree (Carya glabra of family Juglandaceae).

Bunium bulbocastanum
Bunium bulbocastanum#Translingual

Black cumin of family Apiaceae. (Bunium bulbocastanum).

Certain rushpeas, particularly Hoffmannseggia glauca (syn. Hoffmannseggia densiflora) Indian rushpea, of the Fabaceae.


alligator pear

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The "alligator" is likely an alteration of Spanish aguacate, perhaps influenced by the similarity in texture between the skin of the fruit and of an alligator.

There was a tree just behind which bore alligator pears, and all about were the cocoa-nuts which gave the land its revenue.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 52”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

(dialectal, now chiefly Caribbean and Southern US, especially Louisiana) An avocado.


cassidony

Compare Latin cassidonium, French cassidoine. See chalcedony.

Lavandula stoechas
Lavandula stoechas#Translingual

goldilocks (Galatella linosyris, syn. Aster linosyris) and perhaps other plants related to the genus Gnaphalium or cudweed.


sea holm

en-noun

sea holm (countable and uncountable, plural sea holms)


muscadel

muscadel (countable and uncountable, plural muscadels)

Howbeit, as the beer well sodden in the brewing, and stale, is clear and well coloured as muscadel or malvesey, or rather yellow as the gold noble, as our pot-knights call it, so our ale, which is not at all or very little sodden, and without hops, is more thick, fulsome, and of no such continuance, which are three notable things to be considered in that liquor.

1910, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series):

The rich muscadel and malmsey, and the wines of Gascoigne and the Rhine, are no longer quaffed by the abbot and his more honoured guests, but drunk to his destruction by his foes.

1854, William Harrison Ainsworth, The Lancashire Witches:

It was his custom to wash the tobacco in muscadel and grains, and to keep it moist by wrapping it in greased leather, and oiled rags, or by burying it in gravel.

1875, E. R. Billings, Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce:

Alternative form of muscatel (“wine or grape”)


sumbal

sumbal (usually uncountable, plural sumbals)


muskroot

Plants of genus Adoxa (moschatel), especially species Adoxa moschatellina, found in most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere.


apple-berry

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A vine or low shrub native to Australia, Billardiera scandens in the taxonomic family Pittosporaceae, which bears edible fruits said to taste like stewed apples.


tummelberry

From Tummel + berry, after the river in Scotland.

A hybrid fruit resembling a large raspberry.


ragi

Eleusine coracana
Eleusine coracana#Translingual

A grain, of species Eleusine coracana, cultivated as a cereal in arid areas of Africa and Asia; finger millet.


abrotanum

abrotanum (countable and uncountable, plural abrotanums)

From Medieval Latin, from Latin abrotonum, from Ancient Greek ἀβρότονον (abrótonon, “wormwood, southernwood”).

der

Artemisia abrotanum
Artemisia abrotanum#Translingual

A bushy wormwood from Europe, sometimes used in the brewing of beer, southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum.


stoater

El Hakim's party won a mere trifle, but stood what poor Captain Scott was wont to term "a stoater" on Merlin, a good but uncertain horse, who had "lost" him in the trial at home.

1858, The Irish metropolitan magazine, page 117:

Owners back their horses for such “stoaters,” in short distance races, where a start is everything, that, in too many cases, woe betide the backs and pockets of the lads if they do not jump off in a twinkling.

1860, Sporting Magazine - Volume 36, page 306:

When it was known before starting the sum Lord Portsmouth stood on his filly, there was a perfect furore to back her, as a pony would be ' a perfect stoater ' for him ; and his commission, it was understood, considerably exceeded that sum.

1863, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes - Volume 5, page 96:

(Scotland, Ireland, horse racing) A horse that wins against the odds.


hop hornbeam

en-noun

hop hornbeam (countable and uncountable, plural hop hornbeams)

From the resemblance of the fruit to hops. See hornbeam.

Ostrya virginiana
Ostrya virginiana#Translingual

A tree of the species Ostrya virginiana (American hophornbeam).


umeboshi

From Japanese 梅干 (umeboshi, “dried plum”).


Urbaniste

The tree was found in the garden of the Urbanistes monastery in Mechelen, Belgium.


Lima wood

The handsome dark wood of the South American tree Caesalpinia echinata.


rye flake

(chiefly in the plural) A rye groat that is cut, cooked and rolled into a flake, used as a breakfast cereal.


shore plum

A tree, Prunus maritima, bearing small plums, found along the US Atlantic coast from Maine to Maryland.


table apple

Any apple cultivar grown for eating raw, rather than for use in cooking or cider-making.


ruddock

From Middle English ruddocke, ruddok, roddok, from Old English rudduc, ruduc (“robin, ruddock”, literally “little red one, red-ling”), equivalent to rud (“redness”) + -ock (diminutive suffix). The Welsh rhuddog, and Cornish rudhek (“the redbreast”) are probably from the English, although a derivation from a British Celtic *roudākos (< *roudos "red") for all three cannot be ruled out. More at rud.

suffix

(obsolete) A variety of red apple, used for cidermaking.


Indian pipe

en-noun

Indian pipe (countable and uncountable, plural Indian pipes)

A white myco-heterotrophic herb, Monotropa uniflora, of the family Ericaceae.


blue cohosh

blue cohosh (countable and uncountable, plural blue cohoshes)

A perennial American herb (Caulophyllum thalictroides), the root of which is used in medicine.


black cohosh

black cohosh (countable and uncountable, plural black cohoshes)

Actaea racemosa
Actaea racemosa#Translingual

A smooth herb of species Actaea racemosa, marketed for medicinal use.


holly-leaved cherry

holly-leaved cherry (plural holly-leaved cherries)

Prunus ilicifolia
Prunus ilicifolia#Translingual

A species of cherry native to California, Prunus ilicifolia.


lion's ear

Any of various plants with shaggy tomentose leaves

species of Culcitium and Espeletia in Western South America

Leonurus cardiaca and Leonotis nepetifolia, both native to Africa, but grown widely as herbal remedies.


yerba mansa

A fragrant plant, used medicinally, and native to the southern US and northern Mexico, Anemopsis californica.


goutwort

goutwort (usually uncountable, plural goutworts)

Aegopodium podagraria
Aegopodium podagraria#Translingual


lamiaceous

(botany) Of or relating to the family Lamiaceae of mint and its close relatives.


lion's tail

Leonotis leonurus, a broadleaf evergreen shrub with medicinal and psychoactive properties.


dragon's wort

A calque of Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn, “tarragon”).

calque

Artemisia dracunculus
Artemisia dracunculus#Translingual

A perennial herb, tarragon, Artemisia dracunculus.

Dracunculus vulgaris
Dracunculus vulgaris#Translingual

Dracunculus vulgaris, dragon arum, a flowering plant in the arum (Araceae) family.

Bistorta officinalis
Bistorta officinalis#Translingual

Persicaria bistorta
Persicaria bistorta#Translingual

Bistorta officinalis (common bistort, a plant in the knotweed (Polygonaceae) family, once classified as Persicaria bistorta and Polygonum bistorta.

Arisaema dracontium, green dragon, a herbaceous perennial native to North America.


coquilla nut

From Portuguese coquilho, Spanish coquillo, diminutive of coco (“a coconut”).

The fruit of a Brazilian palm tree (Attalea funifera of Martius), whose hard dense shell is used by turners to make ornamental articles.


cammock

en-noun

cammock (countable and uncountable, plural cammocks)

From Middle English cammok (“Ononis repens; Peucedanum officinale; Rhamnus cathartica”), from Old English cammoc.

inh

Scandix pecten-veneris
Scandix pecten-veneris#Translingual


melluco

(archaic) The ulluco (Ullucus tuberosus)


date plum

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The fruit of several species of Diospyros, including the American (D. virginiana) and Japanese persimmons (D. kaki) , and the European lotus (D. lotus)


wild rice

en-noun

wild rice (usually uncountable, plural wild rices)

Rice of any of four species of grasses which form the genus Zizania, which have edible grains and edible stems.


bean sprout

(chiefly in the plural) A sprout of any of several other species of bean


yokeag

From Mohegan-Pequot yoakheage, yok'hig, shortening of yok'higan (“(that which is) made soft”), related to Abenaki nokhigan (“flour”) (see nocake) and Quiripi *rōhkhīk (see rokeag).

Tables were arranged inside and the festival was held Wednesday and Thursday and many visitors appeared for the midday meal, clam chowder, oyster stew, succotash and the famous traveling food—yokeag, made of mortars of pepperidge wood. Yokeag was used by hunters and warriors. It was light to carry and nourishing. We have been told that a small quantity was placed in a deerskin sack to be placed at the waist of the warrior or hunter and with water served as a meal.

1995, Melissa Jayne Fawcett [Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel], The Lasting of the Mohegans: Part I, The Story of the Wolf People, Uncasville, Conn.: Mohegan Tribe, →OCLC, page 55:

She lingers over the Aquinnahs' continued love of yokeag, the food made from white flint corn that has been parched and pounded—the fine cornmeal the Narragansetts shared with Roger Williams, the same food that Thomas Stanton must have eaten on his long walk to Boston three centuries earlier.

2006, Patricia Klindienst, The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 235:

The Mohegan were farmers and fishermen and they provided vegetables (mostly corn), meat and fish for the [Annual Brush Arbor or Wigwam] Festival. One ceremonial food was "Yokeag." One year old yellow corn kernels were parched and ground to fine meal. Every family had a wooden mortar and stone pestle and the men worked long hours in preparing this. Traditionally it was known as "Traveling Food" and was carried by hunters and warriors.

2014, Gladys Tantaquidgeon, “An Affectionate Portrait of Frank Speck”, in Siobhan Senier, editor, Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England, Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 584:


new cocoyam

Xanthosoma sagittifolium
Xanthosoma sagittifolium#Translingual

The cocoyam Xanthosoma sagittifolium (or other Xanthosoma), so called to distinguish it from old cocoyam.


old cocoyam

Colocasia esculenta
Colocasia esculenta#Translingual

The cocoyam, Colocasia esculenta, so called to distinguish it from new cocoyam.


chago

The Andean root vegetable mauka (Mirabilis expansa).


ayocote

From Spanish ayocote, from Nahuatl ayocotl.

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual


sops of wine

An old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red colour, shading to deep red.


Niagara grape

Named after the area where they were first grown.

Vitis labrusca
Vitis labrusca#Translingual

A large, juicy, sweet-smelling, green North American grape which has a pleasant, foxy flavour; a variety of Vitis labrusca which is eaten and used in the production of wines, jams, and white grape juice, but which is a poor shipping grape.


Campeachy wood

Campeachy wood (countable and uncountable, plural Campeachy woods)

First exported from Campeche in Yucatan.


stoneroot

Stoneroot is under the dominion of the Moon. It is used with good effect in chronic catarrh of the bladder, (as are other plants mentioned elsewhere,) whites, and weak stomach.

1867, Oliver Phelps Brown, “COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. Stoneroot.”, in The complete herbalist; or, The people their own physicians by the use of nature's remedies:

Stoneroot is found in moist, shady woods from Maine to Wisconsin, south to Florida and Kansas.

1907, Alice Henkel, American Root Drugs, page 58:

Stoneroot comes from the rhizome (underground stem) and root of Collinsonia canadensis, a member of the Labiatae family. Native to North America, this plant grows wild from Massachusetts and Vermont west to Wisconsin and south to Florida and Arkansas.

2000, Charles W. Fetrow, The Complete Guide To Herbal Medicines, page 525:

Collinsonia canadensis, a perennial medicinal herb in the mint family, with a very hard root.


cassumunar

(archaic) A type of pungent, bitter, aromatic ginger, Zingiber montanum, now considered a synonym of Zingiber cassumunar, native to Southeast Asia and the Malayan peninsula.


skokeberry

Perhaps a half-translation of an Algonquian term for "red berry" (compare Abenaki mkw-, mskw- (“red”)), in reference to the berries' red colour. Alternatively, perhaps a half-translation of an Algonquian term such as Penobscot *skokimin (“snake berry”), in reference to the fact that the plant is poisonous. Compare scoke.

Phytolacca americana
Phytolacca americana#Translingual

(US) A pokeberry or pokeweed plant (Phytolacca americana) or its dark red or purple fruit.


squaw mint

Hedeoma pulegioides, the American pennyroyal.


corinth

From Corinth, the Greek city. Compare currant.

To these some add Corinths plump’d in Milk, or boil’d therein, Sugar, Spice at Discretion, and stirring it all together over the Fire, bake it in a Tart-Pan.

1706, John Evelyn, Silva, Or a Discourse of Forest-trees, page 212:


chempedak

chempedak (usually uncountable, plural chempedaks)

A tree of species Artocarpus integer, of southeast Asia, domesticated is Oceania.


conium

Any of the species in the genus Conium of poisonous perennial herbaceous flowering plants.


devil's bread

Conium maculatum
Conium maculatum#Translingual


tread-softly

Carolina horsenettle
Carolina horsenettle

Solanum carolinense, the Carolina horsenettle.


horsenettle

Any of certain plants in the genus Solanum.


canon bone

From French canon, from Latin canon (“a rule”).

(equestrianism, anatomy) Alternative spelling of cannon bone


bridle path

A party came round the angle of a rock, along the narrow bridle-path, in single file; two ladies on horseback, followed by as many gentlemen on foot, and preceded by the usual guide.

1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:

It was not a bridle-path—merely a pedestrian's track, and the boughs spread horizontally at a height not greater than seven feet above the ground, which made it impossible to ride erect beneath them.

1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 3, in Far from the Madding Crowd:

Then in the evening, he came suddenly upon Sue riding a spirited black horse in a bridle path at the upper end of the park.

1916, Sherwood Anderson, chapter 5, in Windy McPherson's Son:

Some complaints about the Prospect Park trails seem to reflect the ever-present realities of urban horseback riding. Joggers and even bikers wander onto the bridle path.

2008 June 2, Kareem Fahin, “For Riders and Mounts, Rough Going in Prospect Park”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-10-03:

(equestrianism) An established trail used by riders mounted on horses.


wild bergamot

wild bergamot (usually uncountable, plural wild bergamots)

Monarda fistulosa
Monarda fistulosa#Translingual

An American herb of the mint family, Monarda fistulosa.


Indian potato

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Any of several kinds of North American plants with edible, starchy bulbs or other underground structures, such as mariposa lilies, groundnuts, etc., especially

Apios americana (American potato-bean), a terrestrial plant native to eastern North America;

Orogenia spp. (now in Lomatium), a terrestrial plant native to western North America;

Sagittaria latifolia (broadleaf arrowhead, duck potato), an aquatic plant native to North and South America.


yerba santa

From Spanish yerba (“herb”) + santa (“sacred”).

Any of a group of plants native to southwestern North America. Eriodictyon californicum or other species in the genus Eriodictyon, which have traditionally been used medicinally.

Hoja santa, a Central American plant with sweet-scented leaves used to flavor food, Piper auritum.


sybo

From cibol. Compare Scottish Gaelic siobann, siobaid.

the head's taen aff them, as clean as I wad bite it aff a sybo!" rejoined Cuddie.

1851, Walter Scott, chapter 32, in Waverley Novels: Old Mortality, page 772:

A person at whom Inglis had a grudge, was owner of a beautiful garden and flower plot, in which he took great delight, priding himself on the beauty and variety of his flowers and he size and quality of his sybo and carrot beds.

1863, Hawick Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Hawick Archaeological Society, page 98:

Yes; in romantic dew - mountain dew, my respected sir, that could give scent to a sybo.

1868, John Wilson, James Frederick Ferrier, James Hogg, Noctes Ambrosian: Volume 1, page 86:


sebesten

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin sebesten, from Arabic سِبِسْتَان (sibistān), from Persian سگپستان (sag-pestân, literally “dog teat”), from سگ (sag, “dog”) + پستان (pestân, “teat”).

compound

2. Sebesten sylvestris. The wilde Sebesten.
The wild Sebesten is in all things like the other, but that it groweth lower, more like unto a hedge bush, and with lesser and thinner leaves; the flowers and fruit are alike but lesse.

1640, John Parkinson, Theatrum Botanicum, London: Thomas Cotes, page 252:

A medium-sized deciduous tree of species Cordia myxa or, less often, Cordia latifolia, Cordia sebestena, or other species in the genus Cordia, the wood of which is used for furniture and musical instruments.

The mucilaginous drupaceous fruit from these plants, eaten and used medicinally against pectoral diseases, also in a mixture called diasebesten, and for glue.


manna croup

manna + Russian крупа (krupa) or Polish krupa ("groats, grits").

The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc.


Japanese aralia

en-noun

Japanese aralia (countable and uncountable, plural Japanese aralias)

An evergreen shrub, Fatsia japonica, native to Japan.


horsebrush

horsebrush (countable and uncountable, plural horsebrushes)

Any of various flowering plants in the genus Tetradymia, native to mountainous western North America, especially the US.


strip-leaf

(archaic) Tobacco stripped of its stalks before packing.


vinewood

Kindle large fires of vinewood, green laurel, or other green wood.

1901, Herbert Newton Casson, The Crime of Credulity:

He carries a vinewood stick (the mark of a centurion) and his helmet, with the crest placed sideways.

2001, Tom Tierney, Greek and Roman Fashions, page 33:


bae

Syncopic form of babe or baby. Notably, it is sometimes incorrectly linked to the unrelated Danish word bæ (“poop”). Sometimes claimed to derive from "before anyone else", a possible backronym.

And if you actually want to see your bae – you know, like in person – You better set aside some of your refund check to pay for the $26 train ticket to a school that lingers outside of the tri-state area.

2013, "Jack", "Jack & Jill: On High School Relationships", The Torch (St. John's University), Volume 91, Issue 5, 28 August 2013, page 9

Your newsfeed gets clogged with statuses like “Happy Valentine’s Day to my bae! I’ve loved you so much ever since we first met three months, eight days, 11 hours and 27 minutes ago!”

2014, Laken Howard, "Pillow Talk: Let's talk about V-day", The Current (entertainment insert of The Daily Northwestern, Northwestern University), 13 February 2014, page 3

A fresh pic of you and your bae on vacay together? Who wouldn't “like” that?!?

2014, "How Steamy Is Your PDA?", Seventeen, June/July 2014, page 98


filter tip

A section at the mouth end of a cigarette containing porous absorbent materials designed to remove tar.


Chinese bayberry

Chinese bayberry (plural Chinese bayberries)

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Morella rubra
Morella rubra#Translingual


Japanese bayberry

Japanese bayberry (plural Japanese bayberries)

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red bayberry

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yamamomo

From Japanese 山桃 (ヤマモモ, yamamomo), from 山 (yama, “mountain”) + 桃 (momo, “peach”).


Chinese strawberry tree

Chinese strawberry tree (plural Chinese strawberry trees)

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aburagiri

/ˌɑ.bə.ɹəˈɡɪ.ɹi/

Borrowed from Japanese 油桐 (アブラギリ, aburagiri), from 油 (あぶら, abura, “oil”) + 桐 (キリ, kiri, “paulownia”).

A large Asian tree, Aleurites moluccana, that produces candlenuts.


Merlot

Merlot (usually uncountable, plural Merlots)

From French, a diminutive of merle (“blackbird”).

A dry red wine of a certain French type, made from Merlot grapes.


bullace

From Middle English bolas, bolace, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beloce, buloce (“sloe”), from Vulgar Latin *bullucea, from Late Latin bulluca (“kind of small fruit”); of Celtic/Gaulish origin, akin to Celtiberian *bullācā, from Proto-Celtic *bullākā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw- (“to swell, puff”), itself imitative. Possibly influenced by Latin galla (“oak apple”) with metathesis of the consonants.
See also Spanish bugalla (“oak apple”), Portuguese bugalho, and (the distantly related) Latin bucca.

onomatopoeic

imitative

If he ate bullace tart and bullace pie for a week, he would hardly empty the smallest of the baskets; and then they would begin to go bad. Nothing remained but to give them away, but to whom?

1930, Harold Webber Freeman, Down in the Valley, page 48:

A small European plum (Prunus interstitia, syn. Prunus domestica subsp. insititia).


ground ivy

en-noun

ground ivy (usually uncountable, plural ground ivies)

Glechoma hederacea
Glechoma hederacea#Translingual

Glechoma hederacea, an aromatic, perennial, evergreen creeper of the mint family Lamiaceae.


fonio

There’s a certain magic to fonio, a tiny golden grain believed to be Africa’s oldest cultivated cereal. The ancient grain’s potential to solve pressing modern environmental and economic challenges inspired Pierre Thiam, the Senegalese-born chef, to become fonio’s No 1 champion.

2023 July 6, Maria C. Hunt, “Could an ancient, climate-friendly crop be the future of beer?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Digitaria exilis
Digitaria exilis#Translingual

Digitaria exilis, a cereal cultivated in western Africa; white fonio


mazamorra

mazamorra (countable and uncountable, plural mazamorras)

A traditional maize-based pudding or drink of Latin America.


mentha

From the genus name, Mentha, from Latin mentha (“mint”). Doublet of mint.

Very aromatic; all culinary menthas can be used for sauces, jellies, and candied leaves.

1974, Daniel J. Foley, Herbs for Use and for Delight: An Anthology from The Herbarist, page 89:

In the plots where black peppermint were planted as inter-row crop, there were 4 rows of Citronella or other menthas with alternate rows of black peppermint.

1976, Agriculture and Agro-industries Journal, volume 9, page 19:

(botany) Any of the mint genus Mentha, mints and similar species.


goya

(Japan) bitter melon (edible fruit, especially as it is eaten by Okinawans)


monarda

(botany) Any of the genus Monarda of flowering plants, the bergamots or bee balms.


Seckel

The pear originated on a farm near Philadelphia, afterwards owned by a Mr. Seckel.


cherry plum

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Prunus cerasifera
Prunus cerasifera#Translingual

Prunus cerasifera, a deciduous ornamental Eurasian shrub or small tree, having white flowers and small red to yellow edible fruits.


canary grass

canary grass (countable and uncountable, plural canary grasses)

Phalaris canariensis, a grass whose seeds are used as birdseed


capulin

From Spanish capulín, from Classical Nahuatl capolin.

The Mexican cherry (Prunus serotina subsp. capuli, once Prunus capollin) and Prunus capuli, that yields a sap used in native remedies and has edible cherries of which the kernels of the pits furnish a flour.

A tropical American tree (Trema micrantha), the bark of which yields a strong fiber

A groundcherry (any of most species of Physalis).

A Mexican timber tree (Condalia obovata) whose hard wood furnishes a blue dye.

Muntingia calabura
Muntingia calabura#Translingual

A calabur tree (Muntingia calabura, sole species of Muntingia).


bush lawyer

Any of the species of climbing blackberry plants in subgenus Rubus subg. Micranthobatus, found in New Zealand.


cream-fruit

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A plant of Sierra Leone (erroneously said to be Strophanthus gratus in early sources) that yields a wholesome, creamy juice.


welshnut

From Middle English walsh-note, from Old English wealhhnutu (“walnut”, literally “Welsh-nut”), equivalent to Welsh + nut.

inh

[…] Our tongues do run, O, / Enough to stun, O, / Your head wi' glee by the welshnut tree.

1879, William Barnes, “The Welshnut Tree”, in Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, page 85:

A wife, a whelp and a Welshnut tree / The more you beat 'em, the better they be.

1912, Country Life, volume 31, page 313:

(UK dialects, West Country, Dorset, Somerset, dated) A walnut (nut or tree).


clary

en-noun

clary (countable and uncountable, plural claries)

From Middle English clarie, from Anglo-Norman sclaree, from Late or Medieval Latin sclarēia.


bigaroon

French bigarreau, from bigarré (“variegated”).


bennet

From Middle English *benet (found in Middle English herbe-benet (“hemlock”, literally “blessed plant”)), from Old French benëit, benoit and Latin (herba) benedicta. Doublet of benedict.

cog

The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet.


sowens

It was sowens she had in her hand for our supper, when a little old woman walked in and begged a lippie of meal of her.

1860, Thomas Pattieson, “The Smith and the Fairies”, in J[ohn] F[rancis] Campbell, transl., Popular Tales of the West Highlands: Orally Collected: With a Translation, volume II, Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, →OCLC, page 61:

(Scotland) A food item made from the husk of the oat by a process similar to that by which common starch is made; flummery.


crib-biting

(equestrianism) A stereotypy in horses consisting of seizing the manger or other solid, usually wooden, object with the teeth and sucking in wind.


honeyberry

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European nettle tree
European nettle tree

Celtis australis
Celtis australis#Translingual

Edible, sweet, dark purple fruit of the deciduous European nettle tree (Celtis australis).


melocoton

Borrowed from Spanish melocotón (“peach tree and its fruit”), from Latin mālum cotōnium (“quince, or quince tree”, literally “apple of Cydonia”).


guajillo

A huajillo, a shrub of species Senegalia berlandieri (syn. Acacia berlandieri).


cubanelle

Capsicum annuum
Capsicum annuum#Translingual

A particular sweet pepper, a cultivar of the species Capsicum annuum.


shishito

A sweet Japanese pepper, a cultivar of the species Capsicum annuum.


millerandage

Millerandage is most commonly caused by cold or bad weather during the flowering stage of the vines. It impairs the quality of wine made from the grapes.

A viticultural problem in which grape bunches contain berries that differ greatly in size and maturity.


dragonhead

From dragon + head, a calque of translingual Dracocephalum.

Dracocephalum moldavica, the type species of the genus.


shakshuka

bor

Arabic شَكْشُوكَة (šakšūka)

Coordinate term: menemen

Shakshuka came out of total obscurity and, in a couple of decades, evolved into one of the symbols of the local food renaissance. It then went on to conquer the world. If asked to name the top iconic Israeli dishes, most people would mention shakshuka next to hummus, falafel, and chopped salad.

2019, Einat Admony, Janna Gur, Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking, Artisan Books, →ISBN, page 54:

A Maghrebi dish of eggs simmered in a mixture of chopped tomatoes, chilies, cumin, peppers, and onions.

shakshuka

dish of eggs simmered in a mixture of vegetables and spices


durmast oak

en-noun

durmast oak (countable and uncountable, plural durmast oaks)

Superficially a compound of durmast + oak, but the origin of durmast is unclear and possibly a result of scribal error. The first edition Oxford English Dictionary suggests that Thomas Martyn's dictionary for gardeners and botanists (1798) originated the word through misreading dun mast ("light-brown acorn"), an interpretation also suggested by some earlier works going back to at least 1836, although a connection to Welsh derw (“oaks”) has also been suggested.

Quercus petraea
Quercus petraea#Translingual

A tree, Quercus petraea, the sessile oak.


angelique

From French angélique. Doublet of angelic and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).

doublet

Angelica archangelica
Angelica archangelica#Translingual

A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica, especially garden angelica (Angelica archangelica).


water spinach

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Ipomoea aquatica
Ipomoea aquatica#Translingual

Ipomoea aquatica, a green leafy vegetable used as a food in several cuisines of East and Southeast Asia

ᱠᱷᱚᱲᱚᱝ ᱟᱲᱟᱜ

khôṛôṅ aṛak’


orangelo

Blend of orange + pomelo. Calque of Puerto Rican Spanish chironja, itself a blend of china (“orange”) + toronja (“grapefruit”).

blend

A citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a grapefruit.


chilgoza

From Persian چلغوزه (čelğuze), from چهل (čehel, “forty”) + غوزه (ğuze, “nut”).

A pine of species of Pinus gerardiana, native to the northwestern Himalayas.


naranjilla

Solanum quitoense
Solanum quitoense#Translingual

Solanum quitoense, a subtropical perennial plant from northwestern South America.


near side

(equestrianism) The left-hand side of a horse.


blue fenugreek

Trigonella caerulea, a variety of fenugreek with blue flowers.


bridlewise

en-adj

bridlewise (comparative more bridlewise, superlative most bridlewise)

more bridlewise (comparative)
most bridlewise (superlative)

(equestrianism, of a horse) Responsive to the bridle.


teucrium

From the genus name (New Latin Teucrium).

(botany) Any of the genus Teucrium of lamiaceous plants; a germander.


field corn

en-noun

field corn (usually uncountable, plural field corns)

(US) Any variety of corn (maize) grown primarily for fodder; usually, one with lower sugar content than sweet corn and harvested either to be stored dry (on the cob or off, divorced of the stover) or ensiled along with the stover.


latewood

latewood (usually uncountable, plural latewoods)

wood formed in a tree relatively late in the season


earlywood

earlywood (usually uncountable, plural earlywoods)

Wood formed in a tree relatively early in the season.


red oak

red oak (countable and uncountable, plural red oaks)

Quercus rubra
Quercus rubra#Translingual

(usually countable) An oak tree with wood of a red tint, with leaves that have pointed lobes, Quercus rubra, native to eastern North America.

Quercus subg. Quercus
Quercus subg. Quercus#Translingual

(usually countable) A similar tree of any of the many species in Quercus subg. Quercus, section Lobatae, found mostly in North America.

(usually countable, Australia) Carnarvonia araliifolia, a rainforest tree from Australia.

(usually uncountable) Wood from such trees.

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous snake species found in North America.


argaman

/ˈɑː(ɹ)ɡəmən/

Borrowed from Hebrew אַרְגָּמָן (argaman, “purple, crimson”), from Akkadian 𒅈𒂵𒌋𒌋𒉡 (argamannu, “red-purple”).


Manchurian wild rice

Zizania latifolia
Zizania latifolia#Translingual

A cereal grass that grows mostly in China, whose stem is eaten as a vegetable; Zizania latifolia.


hickory nut

To break the shell of a hickory nut, you needed a hammer and an act of Congress, and even then you needed a screwdriver to get at the meat, which was about as tasty as a clod of limestone.

2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 270:

One of the large edible nuts of the hickory tree.


northern wild rice

Wild rice of the species Zizania palustris, native to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and Canada north and west of the Great Lakes.


dwarf elder

Sambucus ebulus
Sambucus ebulus#Translingual

A small European herbaceous perennial elder, species Sambucus ebulus.


highbush cranberry

en-noun

highbush cranberry (plural highbush cranberries)

Viburnum opulus
Viburnum opulus#Translingual

Viburnum edule
Viburnum edule#Translingual

A shrub in the genus Viburnum having acidic red cranberry-like berries, belonging to the North American species Viburnum trilobum, or to the related species Viburnum opulus (European) or Viburnum edule (North American).


saskatoon blueberry

saskatoon blueberry (plural saskatoon blueberries)


maoli

Kaneiakama's spirit companion instructed him what to do, how to place the sacrificial pig, coconuts, red fish, bananas of the maoli variety and other offerings at the foot of a tree that was entered by one of the male gods.

1971, Catherine C. Summers, Molokai: A Site Survey, page 201:

[He could choose] light-colored varieties of bananas such as the ha'a, iholena, loha, and lele; or dark-colored varieties such as the maoli, kahtki, puhi, koa'e, malei'ula, 'eke'ula, kaualau, popo'ulu, aulena, and others.

1976, Samuel Manaiakalani Kamakau, The works of the people of old, page 38:

This banana resembles the "maoli" in general appearance. Its fruit is shorter and quite large in size.

2003, D. M. Kaaiakamanu, J. K. Akina, Hawaiian Herbs of Medicinal Value, →ISBN, page 67:

A species of very tall, dark green-stemmed banana native to Polynesia, having large bunches of long, round fruits with dark-colored flesh.


Latakia

/ˌlætəˈkiːə/

A Syrian city on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

A strong dark tobacco originally produced in Syria.


peameal

peameal (usually uncountable, plural peameals)

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pili nut

The edible seed of Canarium ovatum, a tree native to the maritime tropics from the edge of Southeast Asia to the edge of Australia.


palm nut

Elaeis guineensis
Elaeis guineensis#Translingual

The edible seed of Elaeis guineensis, the oil palm


heartnut

The edible seed of a Japanese species of walnut, Juglans ailantifolia.


ginkgo nut

Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgo biloba#Translingual

The edible seed of the ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba.


kola nut

The local people here believe that kola nut tea -- or as they call it, bissy tea -- is a cure for all ailments.

A newspaper was on his lap as he ruminatively chewed on half a bitter kola nut, which he occasionally dipped into a small bowl of yellow salt that was set beside him.

2005, Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl, Bloomsbury, page 306:

The edible seed of the kola tree, Cola acuminata and related species, used as a flavoring and as a source of caffeine.


Bambara groundnut

Bambara groundnut (plural Bambara groundnuts)

The edible seed of an African plant of species Vigna subterranea, which produces its seeds underground, like peanuts.


Tahitian chestnut

Tahitian chestnut (plural Tahitian chestnuts)

A tropical tree native from Malaysia across the southern Pacific (Inocarpus fagifer).


Malabar chestnut

Malabar chestnut (plural Malabar chestnuts)

The edible seed of a tropical tree, Pachira aquatica, also known as the money tree.


wild service tree

wild service tree (plural wild service trees)

Sorbus torminalis
Sorbus torminalis#Translingual

A tree with edible fruit, Sorbus torminalis, native to central and southern Europe and neighboring parts of Asia and Africa.


chequer tree

/ˈtʃɛkə ˌtɹiː/

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(Eastern Weald) A tree with edible fruit, Sorbus torminalis, native to central and southern Europe and neighboring parts of Asia and Africa.


tiger nut

Consequently, once established in some African regions, the tiger nut has become a weed that is difficult to eradicate. The fibrous “nuts” may be eaten raw out of hand, but they are usually roasted or cooked and added to soups.

2004, Frederic Rosengarten, Jr., The Book of Edible Nuts, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 332:

Cyperus esculentus
Cyperus esculentus#Translingual

(especially in the plural) The edible tuber of chufa (Cyperus esculentus).


pomato

Combinations such as "pomatoes" do not have commercial value now, but investigators hope that closer crosses may.

1983, Water-related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in U.S. Arid/semiarid Lands:

A plant produced by grafting a tomato plant and a potato plant, producing cherry tomatoes on the vine and potatoes under the ground.


quequisque

Mongrels all ribcage and droopy jowl barked at his passage; but no one stirred inside the low huts among plots of quequisque and plantain.

1996, Liston Pope, Living Like the Saints: A Novel of Nicaragua, page 188:


poison hemlock

poison hemlock (usually uncountable, plural poison hemlocks)

Conium maculatum
Conium maculatum#Translingual

The European hemlock Conium maculatum, an extremely poisonous plant in the carrot family, Apiaceae.


Chinese parsley

Coriandrum sativum
Coriandrum sativum#Translingual

Coriandrum sativum, coriander (cilantro).


Calabrese

Calabrese (countable and uncountable, plural Calabresi)

From the Italian calabrese (“Calabrian”).

(wine) Nero d’Avola or Sangiovese, varieties of wine grapes.


black nightshade

black nightshade (plural black nightshades)

ኣውጥ

this is also a term for nightshades and winter cherries in general

Solanum nigrum
Solanum nigrum#Translingual

Other similar members of a group of closely-related species from the Solanum nigrum complex:

Solanum americanum (American black nightshade) of much of North America


wild ginger

wild ginger (usually uncountable, plural wild gingers)

Zingiber officinale
Zingiber officinale#Translingual

Any of the many plants similar to culinary ginger (Zingiber officinale) in appearance or aroma.

Hedychium gardnerianum (kahili ginger, ginger lily)


cobette

I'll cook clams, lobsters—hot-and-spicy red potatoes and corn cobettes.

2002, Patricia Hickman, Sandpebbles, page 194:

Processing budgets were completed for these seven frozen products: strawberries, strawberry jam, sliced green beans, cut corn, corn (cobettes), sliced apples, and apple puree.

2006, Progress Report, volume 15, page 54:

Sitting late one night again in a burger bar, where I munched into some fries and a corn cobette, I mentioned my vegetarianism to Joshua and how I just felt a deep-rooted belief it was morally wrong to kill animals for us to eat […]

2011, Rehana Incognito, Bodycage, page 304:

A small portion of corn on the cob, less than the whole ear.


Medjool

A kind of large, moist date (the fruit).


Jamaica ginger

A variety of ginger prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately.


Chinese celery

Chinese celery (usually uncountable, plural Chinese celeries)

Apium graveolens var. secalinum, a variety of celery with smaller stalks and flavorful leaves, grown in East Asian countries for use in cooking.


wild leek

A. tricoccum

ramp, ramps, spring onion, ramson, wood leek, wild garlic

Allium ampeloprasum
Allium ampeloprasum#Translingual

A wild onion native to southern Europe and western Asia, cultivated and consequently naturalized in many other places, Allium ampeloprasum.


Madeira nut

Juglans regia
Juglans regia#Translingual

The European walnut; the nut of Juglans regia.


mountain mint

mountain mint (countable and uncountable, plural mountain mints)

Any plant of the genus Pycnanthemum in the mint family.

Any of several plants in the genus Monardella, native to western North America.

A European herb, Clinopodium nepeta, sometimes used as a seasoning.


bastard pennyroyal

Plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae), native to North America and having a pennyroyal-like scent, including:

Blue curls (Trichostema dichotomum, native to the eastern US.

A plant of species Trichostema setaceum (Trichostema lineare in older references), also native to the eastern US, which is usually qualified as linear-leaved or narrow bastard pennyroyal.

Mustang mint, mustang monardella (Monardella lanceolata), native to California and Baja California.


woody pear

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The inedible, woody, pear-shaped fruit of several Australian proteaceous trees of the genus Xylomelum.


imbuia

From Portuguese imbuia, of uncertain origin.

Ocotea porosa, a tree of southern Brazil, a source of high-end timber.


brandy fruit

brandy fruit (countable and uncountable, plural brandy fruits)

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(dated) Fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.


semen contra

(obsolete) A strong aromatic bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.


starting price

(horse racing) The final odds on a horse when the race starts; also used to designate a system of fixed-odds betting using such prices. Abbreviation: SP.


marmalade tree

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hinoki

hinoki (countable and uncountable, plural hinoki or hinokis)

The large hinokis are repotted every four to five years, while the smaller plants are repotted every two to three years.

1989, Arnold Arboretum, Peter Del Tredici, Early American Bonsai: The Larz Anderson Collection of the Arnold Arboretum, page 17:

Chamaecyparis obtusa
Chamaecyparis obtusa#Translingual

A tree (species Chamaecyparis obtusa), the Japanese cypress.


Idared

A red apple cultivar from Idaho, United States, having white flesh and a firm body.


peasemeal

A flour produced from yellow field peas that have been roasted.


durum wheat

durum wheat (countable and uncountable, plural durum wheats)

Triticum turgidum subsp. durum#Translingual

Triticum durum
Triticum durum#Translingual

Triticum turgidum subsp. durum, syn. Triticum durum (hard wheat), the flour of which is used to make pasta and bread.


palak

From Hindi पालक (pālak), from Sanskrit पालक्या (pālakyā).

Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album#Translingual

(India, cooking) Spinach or similar greens (including Amaranthus species and Chenopodium album).


Indian plum

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Oemleria cerasiformis, a shrub in the rose family, native to the Pacific coast of North America.

Flacourtia jangomas, a rainforest tree in the willow family that is widely planted in Asia and Southeast Asia.

Flacourtia indica, an Asian species often used as a living fence.

Ziziphus mauritiana
Ziziphus mauritiana#Translingual

Ziziphus mauritiana, a tropical fruit tree.


Mutsu

From Japanese 陸奥 (Mutsu, “Mutsu Province”), an old province of Japan, where the cultivar was first grown.

A variety of apple, a cross between the Golden Delicious and the Indo, first grown in Japan.


parasol tree

Polyscias kikuyuensis, a plant in the Araliaceae family, endemic to Kenya.


golden raisin

A variety of raisin treated with sulfur dioxide after drying to impart a golden colour.


mintbush

Any of various bushy evergreen shrubs of the genus Prostanthera, usually with strongly aromatic leaves.


muntrie

(usually in the plural) Kunzea pomifera, a low-growing plant of southern Australia.


Rome Beauty

A glossy red variety of cooking apple originating near Rome Township, Lawrence County, Ohio, in the early 19th century.


clary water

A composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.


Sauvignon blanc

Sauvignon blanc (countable and uncountable, plural Sauvignon blancs or Sauvignons blancs)

Sauvignon blancs (plural)
Sauvignons blancs (plural)

I'm not in the mood for whisky, nor beer. Something soft would be sensible, but I decide that wine is the order of the day - a sauvignon blanc, which I take with a few olives.

2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 42:

A crisp, dry white wine produced from this grape.


Jerusalem cherry

Jerusalem cherry (plural Jerusalem cherries)

Solanum pseudocapsicum, a nightshade species with poisonous fruit.


Jerusalem sage

Phlomis fruticosa, a lamiaceous flowering plant with yellow tubular flowers and aromatic leaves.


wolf's peach

Solanum lycopersicum
Solanum lycopersicum#Translingual

(obsolete) tomato (Solanum lycopersicum).


semisavoy

(chiefly attributive) A hybrid variety of spinach with slightly crinkled leaves.


seed potato

A potato, usually with tiny shoots (chits), which is planted in the ground in order to grow a potato plant.

siemenperuna

a potato which is planted in the ground in order to grow a potato plant


Swedish turnip

Heavens! what attention he bestowed on the growth of his grey pease! how eloquent he could be on the merits of Swedish turnips! and a new drill, or a patent thrashing machine, deprived him of sleep for a week.

1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 106:

swede; rutabaga (Brassica napus var. napobrassica)


eggcellent

en-adj

eggcellent (comparative more eggcellent, superlative most eggcellent)

more eggcellent (comparative)
most eggcellent (superlative)

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

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

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

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

She Crabs laden with egg make very eggcellent soup.

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

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


cos lettuce

en-noun

cos lettuce (countable and uncountable, plural cos lettuces)

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

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


eggciting

en-adj

eggciting (comparative more eggciting, superlative most eggciting)

more eggciting (comparative)
most eggciting (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


eggstravaganza

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

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

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

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

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

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

(informal, humorous) An extravaganza involving eggs.


eggstraordinary

eggstraordinary (comparative more eggstraordinary, superlative most eggstraordinary)

more eggstraordinary (comparative)
most eggstraordinary (superlative)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


coracan millet

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

Eleusine coracana
Eleusine coracana#Translingual


baingan

en-noun

baingan (usually uncountable, plural baingans)

(India, uncommon) An eggplant; a brinjal.


glory tree

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


fool's parsley

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


herb Gerard

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

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

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

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

1731, Nathan Bailey, An Universal Etymological English Dictionary:

Aegopodium podagraria
Aegopodium podagraria#Translingual

(archaic) The ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).


Roman wormwood

Artemisia pontica
Artemisia pontica#Translingual

A smaller relative of wormwood, Artemisia pontica


Indian wheat

Indian wheat (usually uncountable, plural Indian wheats)

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


pea bean

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

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

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

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

Vigna unguiculata
Vigna unguiculata#Translingual


German wheat

Triticum spelta
Triticum spelta#Translingual


back the field

en-verb

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

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

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


bridle wrist

(equestrianism) The wrist of the left hand, in which a horseback rider holds the bridle.


wild radish

Raphanus raphanistrum
Raphanus raphanistrum#Translingual

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


holy grass

en-noun

holy grass (usually uncountable, plural holy grasses)

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

Hierochloe odorata
Hierochloe odorata#Translingual

Anthoxanthum nitens
Anthoxanthum nitens#Translingual

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


milk parsley

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


multiflora bean

multiflora bean (plural multiflora beans)

Phaseolus coccineus
Phaseolus coccineus#Translingual


Molucca palm

Nypa fruticans
Nypa fruticans#Translingual


goosetongue

goosetongue (usually uncountable, plural goosetongues)

Plantago maritima (sea plantain, seaside plantain)


orange mint

A mint that smells of oranges, now specifically the Eau de Cologne mint, Mentha × piperita var. citrata.


elephant apple

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

The fruit of several tropical Asian trees:

wood apple, a citrus relative (Limonia acidissima)

Limonia acidissima
Limonia acidissima#Translingual

bael, another citrus relative (Aegle marmelos)

Aegle marmelos
Aegle marmelos#Translingual


katmon

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


giant fennel

Ferula communis
Ferula communis#Translingual

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


umbrella tree

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

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


dandy brush

A kind of hard-bristled brush used in grooming horses.


negro corn

Sorghum bicolor
Sorghum bicolor#Translingual

(archaic) durra; Indian millet (Sorghum bicolor)


loureiro

loureiro (countable and uncountable, plural loureiros)

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

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

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

A variety of white wine made from this grape.


onionweed

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


Mission grape

Vitis vinifera
Vitis vinifera#Translingual

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


ghost pepper

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

cal

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

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


bhut jolokia

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

bor+

A kind of very spicy hot chili pepper from India.


Chinese radish

en-noun

Chinese radish (plural Chinese radishes)

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


Spanish potato

Spanish potato (plural Spanish potatoes)

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

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


Korean radish

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


Japanese radish

Japanese radish (plural Japanese radishes)

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


Chinese white radish

Chinese white radish (plural Chinese white radishes)


icicle radish

From a supposed resemblance to an icicle.

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


lo bak

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

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


Oriental radish

Oriental radish (plural Oriental radishes)

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Synonym of daikon, particularly its elongated Chinese varieties.


giant white radish

giant white radish (plural giant white radishes)

Sakurajima radish
Sakurajima radish#English


long white radish

long white radish (plural long white radishes)


asham

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

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

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


true daikon

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


red daikon

watermelon radish
watermelon radish#English


beauty heart radish

beauty heart radish (plural beauty heart radishes)

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


watermelon radish

watermelon radish (plural watermelon radishes)

From a supposed resemblance to the watermelon.

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


red meat radish

red meat radish (plural red meat radishes)


shinrimei

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

zh-m

(Chinese cuisine) The watermelon radish.


shinrimei radish

en-noun

shinrimei radish (plural shinrimei radishes)


roseheart radish

roseheart radish (plural roseheart radishes)

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

partial calque

(Chinese cuisine) Synonym of watermelon radish


Chinese green radish

en-noun

Chinese green radish (plural Chinese green radishes)


Sakurajima radish

Sakurajima radish (plural Sakurajima radishes)

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

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

Raphanus acanthiformis var. gigantissimus Nakai

Raphanus sativus var. hortensis f. gigantissimus Makino

Raphanus sativus var. longipinnatus L.H. Bailey


Sakurajima daikon

Sakurajima daikon (plural Sakurajima daikons)

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

(Japanese cuisine) Synonym of Sakurajima radish.


Sakurajima

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

bor

(placename) An asteroid in Main Belt, Solar System


pejibaye

Bactris gasipaes
Bactris gasipaes#Translingual

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


corn oyster

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


giant daikon

en-noun

giant daikon (plural giant daikons or giant daikon)

giant daikons (plural)
giant daikon (plural)

(Japanese cuisine) Synonym of Sakurajima radish


jumbo daikon

jumbo daikon (plural jumbo daikons or jumbo daikon)

jumbo daikons (plural)
jumbo daikon (plural)


fodder radish

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


tillage radish

tillage radish (plural tillage radishes)

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


oilseed radish

oilseed radish (plural oilseed radishes)

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


rat-tail radish

rat-tail radish (plural rat-tail radishes)

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

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

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


serpent radish

serpent radish (plural serpent radishes)


tail-pod radish

tail-pod radish (plural tail-pod radishes)

(Chinese cuisine) Synonym of rat-tail radish


common radish

Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus#Translingual

Raphanus sativus
Raphanus sativus#Translingual

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


European radish

European radish (plural European radishes)

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


Chinese plum

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

Eriobotrya japonica
Eriobotrya japonica#Translingual


Russet Burbank

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


sport pepper

Chicago-style hot dog
Chicago-style hot dog

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


Picardan

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

A white wine made from this kind of grape.


corn parsley

Petroselinum segetum, species of parsley endemic to western and southern Europe, and northern Africa.


mock orange

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


turkey berry

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

Solanum torvum
Solanum torvum#Translingual

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


yellow bugle

yellow bugle (countable and uncountable, plural yellow bugles)

Ajuga chamaepitys
Ajuga chamaepitys#Translingual

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


rapunzel

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Campanula rapunculus
Campanula rapunculus#Translingual

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

Valerianella locusta
Valerianella locusta#Translingual

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


leaf vegetable

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


race cloth

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


fetticus

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

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

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


mountain cranberry

mountain cranberry (plural mountain cranberries)

Mountain bearberry
mountain bearberry#English

Arctostaphylos alpina
Arctostaphylos alpina#Translingual

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


rattlesnake master

rattlesnake master (plural rattlesnake masters)

The plant was reputed to cure rattlesnake bites.

Manfreda virginica, a flowering plant related to agaves.


Guinea pepper

Aframomum melegueta
Aframomum melegueta#Translingual

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

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


one-horse race

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

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

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

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

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


black snakeroot

black snakeroot (usually uncountable, plural black snakeroots)

Actaea racemosa
Actaea racemosa#Translingual


Alphonso mango

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

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


andiroba

andiroba (countable and uncountable, plural andirobas)

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

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


pudding grass

Mentha pulegium
Mentha pulegium#Translingual

Mentha pulegium, the European pennyroyal.


queen of the meadow

Eutrochium purpureum, sweet joe-pye weed.


tiger grass

tiger grass (countable and uncountable, plural tiger grasses)

Centella asiatica
Centella asiatica#Translingual


horsebalm

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


musk seed

musk seed (countable and uncountable, plural musk seeds)

Synonym of abelmosk: the plant or its aromatic seeds.


beach pea

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


chamoe

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


chuanxiong

chuanxiong (usually uncountable, plural chuanxiongs)

Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 川芎 (chuānxiōng).

Ligusticum striatum
Ligusticum striatum#Translingual

Szechuan lovage, a plant of the species Ligusticum striatum, formerly Ligustricum chuanxiong


takuwan

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

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

단무지

pickled daikon radish — see also pickled daikon radish


chuchupate

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


Chinese cherry

Chinese cherry (plural Chinese cherries)

Chinese flowering cherry (Prunus cyclamina)

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

Chinese sour cherry (Prunus pseudocerasus)

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

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


Chinese spinach

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Any of several plants grown as leaf vegetables:

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

Ipomoea aquatica
Ipomoea aquatica#Translingual

Amaranthus dubius, often bearing red or purple marks

Amaranthus tricolor
Amaranthus tricolor#Translingual

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

Capsella bursa-pastoris (shepherd's purse)

Capsella bursa-pastoris
Capsella bursa-pastoris#Translingual


yamaimo

Dioscorea japonica, an edible Japanese yam.


nagaimo

nagaimo (countable and uncountable, plural nagaimo)

Borrowed from Japanese 長芋, literally "long yam".


eleuthero

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


sweet bursaria

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


murphy

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

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

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

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


firwood

firwood (countable and uncountable, plural firwoods)

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

A wood largely populated with fir trees.


pudhina

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

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

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

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


black cherry

black cherry (countable and uncountable, plural black cherries)

Prunus serotina
Prunus serotina#Translingual