swine-bread

Definitions

1. 1

   Any plant of the genus Cyclamen.

   • 'Tis not ſo hard a Task to know the delicious Earth-Apples or Swine-bread, that are ſo cheap in this Country;
   • The fondness of swine for the roots originated the English as well as some of the continental names of the plant. Swine-bread is an old name for it; and the French call it Pain de Porceau, or, as it is provincially termed, Pain de pur.
2. 2

   A plant of species Conopodium majus or its tuber.

3. 3

   A truffle, Tuber fungus.

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