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noun
A Jerusalem artichoke (the tuber of Helianthus tuberosus); the plant that produces it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: ground pear, sunchoke, more at Jerusalem artichoke
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A potato; the plant that produces it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Synonyms: groundapple, ground pear, more at potato
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noun
The fruit of the mandrake (Mandragora officinarum); the plant itself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Any of various tubers or the tuberous plants that produce them, especially sowbread (genus Cyclamen).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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History
From earlier erth-apple (“tuberous root of the sowbread", also "tomato-like fruit of the mandrake”), from Middle English *erth-appel, from Old English eorþæppel (“cucumber”, literally “earth or ground-apple”), from Proto-West Germanic *erþapplu (the name of various types of fruits which grow on or below the ground; gourd, melon, squash), equivalent to earth + apple. The modern sense of "potato" is a calque of Dutch aardappel (“potato”). Compare also German Erdapfel, French pomme de terre.
