swine-breads

Noun

swine-bread (countable and uncountable, plural swine-breads)

1. Any plant of the genus Cyclamen.
   • 'Tis not ſo hard a Task to know the delicious Earth-Apples or Swine-bread, that are ſo cheap in this Country;1696, Jean Dumont (Baron de Carlscroon), A New Voyage to the Levant: Containing an Account of the moſt Remarkable Curioſities in Germany, France, Italy, Malta and Turkey, page 68

   Synonyms:

   hog's bread, groundbread, sowbread

2. (obsolete, rustic) A plant of species Conopodium majus or its tuber.

   Synonyms:

   kippernut, arnut, jarnut, hawknut, earth chestnut, groundnut, earthnut, pignut, hognut, Saint Anthony's nut

3. (obsolete, rustic) A truffle, Tuber fungus.
   • The truffle is most frequently met with in the southern counties of England, in the chalky soil of the South Downs, and an experienced truffle-hunter who came from the West Indies about the year 1790, after investigating the whole coast from the Land's End to the mouth of the Thames, pitched upon...1877, W. Collett-Sandars, “Truffles”, in Gentleman's Magazine, volume CCXLI, Picadilly: Chatto & Windus, page 732