fern root

British  

noun

1. another name for aruhe

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fern root

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

“What’s that?” reached their ears, and they saw the sleeper feeling about till his hand came in contact with the dry fern root.

From Will of the Mill by George Manville Fenn

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

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 A Pakeha Maori

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

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