English Dictionary

ground provisions

名詞

カリブ海英語 ガイアナ英語 ジャマイカ英語 複数形 複数形のみ

(Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Starchy staple vegetables grown in the ground such as yam, taro, cassava and sweet potato.

日本語の意味

（カリブ、ガイアナ、ジャマイカなどで）地面で育つ、ヤムイモ、タロ、キャッサバ、サツマイモなどのでんぷん質の主要野菜の総称

At the market, she bought fresh ground provisions to make a hearty stew.

市場で、彼女はシチューを作るために新鮮な主食用の芋類を買った。

意味（1）

(Caribbean, Guyana, Jamaica) Starchy staple vegetables grown in the ground such as yam, taro, cassava and sweet potato.

In Barbadoes, I doubt whether the corn, (it is Indian corn not wheat) and the ground provisions (I mean yams, and other roots) raised in the island, are sufficient to maintain the inhabitants for three months […]