elephant's-foot

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elephant's-foot - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  elephant's-foot
      n 1: South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with
           deeply fissured bark [syn: elephant's-foot, tortoise plant
           , Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine,
           Dioscorea elephantipes]
      2: any plant of the genus Elephantopus having heads of blue or
         purple flowers; America