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Re: [lojban] samcu

At 10:08 AM 4/7/03 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: 
The official definition of {samcu} is any of three different plants:
Taro (Colocasia) is in the arum family.
Manioc (Manihot) is in the spurge family (as is the poinsettia).
Yam (Dioscorea) is in the yam family.
Which of these, if any, is the default meaning of {samcu}?

Probably any/all of them. In a context where you are talking about pretty flowers, it might be the poinsettia; if you are going to eat it, it might be a yam.

Good place for some disambiguating lujvo. gismu are supposed to have as generalized a meaning as possible, so as to enable such use in lujvo.

lojbab

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