From jcowan@reutershealth.com Mon Apr 07 08:48:16 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 7 Apr 2003 15:48:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 12336 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2003 15:48:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m5.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 7 Apr 2003 15:48:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO skunk.reutershealth.com) (65.200.144.21) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2003 15:48:15 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by skunk.reutershealth.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 8DF6546E37; Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:50:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:50:18 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:50:18 -0400 To: Pierre Abbat Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] samcu Message-ID: <20030407155018.GE15421@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <200304071008.37954.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304071008.37954.phma@webjockey.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan 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. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Raffiniert ist der Herrgott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. --Albert Einstein