fern root

noun

Nicholas offered him some rice, but he intimated that he decidedly preferred fern-root.

With them joined the god of cultivated food, such as the kumara, and the god of food that grows wild—such as the fern-root.

Gradually the potato superseded amongst them the taro and fern-root, and even to some extent the kumara.

Some were full of roasted flesh, and some of fern-root, which serves them for bread.

Arms they had, ammunition they could steal, and blockade was useless with enemies who live on fern-root.

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