earthapple
A Jerusalem artichokeA Jerusalem artichoke (the tuber of Helianthus tuberosus); the plant that produces it.
» Earthapple means the same thing as potato.
Erdapfel bedeutet das Gleiche wie Kartoffel.
Meaning
4 sensesA Jerusalem artichoke (the tuber of Helianthus tuberosus); the plant that produces it.
(rare)A potato; the plant that produces it.
(historical)The fruit of the mandrake (Mandragora officinarum); the plant itself.
(obsolete)Any of various tubers or the tuberous plants that produce them, especially sowbread (genus Cyclamen).
Examples
1 sentencesEarthapple means the same thing as potato.
deErdapfel bedeutet das Gleiche wie Kartoffel.
Origin
From earlier erth-apple (“tuberous root of the sowbread", also "tomato-like fruit of the mFrom 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.
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