fern root
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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"Had to dig a big fern root for Mary."
From The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening by Lilian Garis
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
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
They are cowhage, scammony, male fern root, calomel, gamboge, tin, and turpentine.
From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous
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
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