noun
thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot
• Syn: ↑Hottentot's bread
• Hypernyms: ↑root
• Part Holonyms: ↑elephant's-foot, ↑tortoise plant, ↑Hottentot bread vine, ↑Hottentot's bread vine, ↑Dioscorea elephantipes
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noun or hottentot's breadUsage: usually capitalized H
1. : elephant's-foot 1
2. : the thick edible rootstock of elephant's-foot
Useful english dictionary. 2012.