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Definition of Hottentot bread
1. Noun. Thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot.
Group relationships: Dioscorea Elephantipes, Elephant's-foot, Hottentot Bread Vine, Hottentot's Bread Vine, Tortoise Plant
Generic synonyms: Root
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hottentot Bread
Literary usage of Hottentot bread
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... height of nearly 3 ft. above ground It is rich in starch, whence the name
Hottentot bread, and is covered on the outside with thick, hard, corky plates. ..."
2. The Native Races of South Africa: A History of the Intrusion of the by George William Stow (1905)
"... the latter being known to the colonists as Hottentot- bread, were extracted,
reduced to a pulp, and after being baked in some primitive fashion, ..."
3. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"It is also called the Hottentot bread-fruit. The Kafir people bury it for some
months in the ground, then pound it, and extract a farinaceous matter of the ..."
4. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... eg more than 3 yds in circumference with a height of nearly .; ft. above ground
It ¡s rich in starch, whence the name Hottentot bread, and is covered on ..."
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