fern root

British  

noun

1. another name for aruhe

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The process of cooking fern root is very simple; for it is merely roasted on the fire, and afterwards bruised by means of a flat stone similar to a cobbler's lap-stone, and a wooden pestle.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

And the people told the chiefs that they could not live on fern root and fight the soldiers at the same time.

From Old New Zealand A Tale of the Good Old Times; and A History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Maori, A Pakeha

We cut open the baskets, some of which were full of roasted flesh, and others of fern root, which serves them for bread.

From A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 by Earle, Augustus

A decoction is made with two ounces of the sweet fern root boiled in one and one-half pints water to one pint.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson

Presently Vela dug up a fern root of the common Polypodium vulgare; he scraped it with his knife and gave us some to eat.

From Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino by Butler, Samuel