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noun

Hottentot n.

(Ethnol.) One of a degraded and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

The language of the Hottentots, which is remarkable for its clicking sounds; the Khoisan language.

Hottentot cherry (Bot.), a South African plant of the genus Cassine (Cassine maurocenia), having handsome foliage, with generally inconspicuous white or green flowers.

Hottentot's bread. (Bot.) See Elephant's foot (a), under Elephant.

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Etymology of 'Hottentot's bread'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hottentot's bread" Quotes from Famous Books

... climbing black bryony (Tamus) of our hedges, and to the same group belongs the very singularly stemmed elephant's foot, or tortoise-tree (Testudinaria elephantipes). The last-named plant is a native of the Cape of Good Hope, where it has been known as Hottentot's bread, because the soft interior of its swollen base was at one time eaten by the natives of that region, who have, however, now abandoned ...

— The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 • Various