hottentot's bread vine

Questions about hottentot's bread vine

What does hottentot's bread vine mean?

hottentot's bread vine means "South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark".

What is another word for hottentot's bread vine?

Close synonyms include elephant's-foot, tortoise plant, Hottentot bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hottentot's bread vine a common word?

hottentot's bread vine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.