HyperDic: hottentot_bread

English > 1 sense of the expression Hottentot bread:
NOUNplantHottentot bread, Hottentot's breadthick edible rootstock / rootstock of elephant's-foot
English > Hottentot bread: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningThick edible rootstock / rootstock of elephant's-foot.
SynonymHottentot's bread
Part ofelephant's-foot, tortoise plant, Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipesSouth African vine having a massive rootstock / rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
Broaderroot(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes

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