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Elephant's-foot

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Noun

1. dioscorea elephantipes, elephant's-foot, hottentot bread vine, hottentot's bread vine, tortoise plant

South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark

2. elephant's-foot

any plant of the genus Elephantopus having heads of blue or purple flowers; America

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Elephant's-foot

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noun
a monocotyledonous plant, Testudinaria elephantipes, of southern Africa, with a very large starchy tuberous stem, covered in corky scales: family Dioscoreaceae

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