Earthapple
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Earthapple is a noun meaning A Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus).
Meaning
A Jerusalem artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus).
More Meanings
- (rare) A potato.
- (historical) The mandrake (Mandragora officinarum), or its fruit.
- (obsolete) The name of various tuberous plants, especially sowbread (genus Cyclamen).
Example Sentences
He finished carefully arranging a plate of fresh prawns, earthapples, and kale he'd bought special for Captain Falcon in Bangalang.
There were roots of some sort, also, baking like earthapples near the fire, and a basket of late berries, most of them bitter. I ate them anyway.
It was supper-time on board the Stormchaser, and the sky pirates were all seated round a longbench tucking into a meal of baked snowbird and earthapple mash.
The most probable account I have been able to collect is, that a vessel of Sir Walter Raleigh's, returning from Guiana, put into the west of Ireland in distress, having on board some potatoes which they called earth-apples.
Word Forms
- earthapples
- earth-apple
- earth apple
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include eveite, ember, earth, ortstein, peach, bearthite.
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