单词 | swine-bread |
释义 | swine-bread|ˈswaɪnbrɛd| Also 6–7 swines-bread. [Cf. G. schwein(s)brot, mod.L. panis porcinus.] †1. The plant Cyclamen; = sowbread. Obs.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iii. 704 Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed A tardy Labour; but (without great heed) If over it a Child-great Woman stride, Instant abortion often doth betide. 1648Hexham i. Herbs, Sow bread, or Swyne bread. †2. Truffles. Obs.
1677Miége Fr. Dict., Trufe, Sow-bread, or swine bread (a most dainty kind of round and russet root). 1696tr. Du Mont's Voy. Levant vi. 68 Tis not so hard a Task to know the delicious Earth-Apples or Swine-bread [orig. Trufes]. 1755Johnson, Swinebread, a kind of plant; truffles. 3. Locally applied to the earth-nut or pig-nut, Bunium flexuosum.
1888Sheffield Gloss., Pig-nut, sb. the earth nut. Bunium flexuosum. Called Swine-bread in Inverness-shire. |

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