Re: [lojban] samcu

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Pierre Abbat scripsit:
> 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}? What are the names 
> of the others? What about the sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas, in the morning 
> glory genus) and the Jerusalem artichoke (which is in the taxonomy chart as 
> {solxrula patlu}, but I may be wrong)?

Like almost all plant gismu, it refers to an edible plant: in this case,
any plant with an edible root (as distinct from tuber).  Some of the
given cases may be incorrect, but this is the standard.

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