Lexicographical Neighbors of Camote
Literary usage of Camote
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in the Philippines by Fedor Jagor (1875)
"Next to rice the principal articles of sustenance are camote ... camote can be
planted all the year round, and ripens in four months; but it takes place ..."
2. Participatory Research and Development for Sustainable Agriculture and by Julian F. Gonsalves, International Potato Center, International Development Research Centre (Canada) (2005)
"This would require adequate and continuous supply of CPM, removal of alternate
hosts of camote ku/ot and close monitoring of CPM producers. ..."
3. Eliza Cook's Journal by Eliza Cook (1850)
"camote laughs at the white man's bullets," he cried; " he kills them like dogs.
... When light enough to render distant objects visible, camote was seen ..."
4. The Bontoc Igorot by Albert Ernest Jenks (1905)
"Spiral camote beds. The mountain-side sementera for camotes, maize, millet, and
beans is prepared simply by being scratched or picked an inch or two deep ..."
5. Bulletin by Philippines Mining Bureau (1902)
"The camote (a variety of sweet potato) is even more invariably cultivated, as it
is the principal article of food. It grows rapidly, bears throughout the ..."
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