fern root

British  

noun

1. another name for aruhe

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fern root

He describes an islet with "signs of visits of the natives" and on the main, in low grounds, were holes where they dug for fern root.

From The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee

The next, which they have in great quantities, is a root called aheita, resembling, in taste, our liquorice; and another fern root, whose leaves were not yet disclosed.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr

It must not be supposed, as some have believed, that the fern root, wherever it grows, is fit for food.

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 P. L. Simmonds

Or, we will dwell together in the great ravine of Palawai, where we will eat the young of the uwau bird, and we will bake them in ki leaf with the sweet pala fern root.

From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Thrum

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 Augustus Earle