NOUN | plant | Hottentot bread, Hottentot's bread | thick edible rootstock / rootstock of elephant's-foot |
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Meaning | Thick edible rootstock / rootstock of elephant's-foot. | |
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Synonym | Hottentot's bread | |
Part of | elephant's-foot, tortoise plant, Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes | South African vine having a massive rootstock / rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark |
Broader | root | (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes |
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