From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Thu Aug 09 05:56:13 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:56:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ7Yj-0005CI-1v for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:56:13 -0700 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IJ7Yc-0005C8-22 for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:56:12 -0700 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A03CE771 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:56:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: cassava (samcu) vs. potato (patlu) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:55:57 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200708090855.58692.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: 0.1 X-Spam-Score-Int: 1 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 5318 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Thursday 09 August 2007 05:44, MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com wrote: > In a message dated 8/9/2007 4:22:55 AM Central Daylight Time, > > ecartis@digitalkingdom.org writes: > > {samcu} can refer to any edible starchy root. For cassava specifically I > > say > > {mandioka}. > > > > Pierre > > Are "patlu" also roots, or are tubers different? A tuber is a horizontal underground stem. The eyes of a potato are buds. Then there are corms. A corm is also an underground stem, but it is vertical and grows leaves on top. Taro and konjaku are corms; both are in the arum family. Pierre