noun
South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
• Hypernyms: ↑vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Dioscorea, ↑genus Dioscorea
• Part Meronyms: ↑Hottentot bread, ↑Hottentot's bread
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noun : elephant's-foot 1b
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elephant's-foot.
[1865-70]
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tortoise plant noun
Elephant's-foot
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Main Entry: ↑tortoise
Useful english dictionary. 2012.