monk's head

English

monk's head (plural monk's heads)

(now rare) The dandelion. [from 15th c.]
A cactus of the genus Melocactus, endemic to Brazil.
- 1984, Helen R. Lane, translating Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society 2012, p. 538:
  [A] quarter of a goat is going for thirty and forty milreis, a loaf of hard brown sugar for twenty, a cupful of manioc flour for five, an imbuzeiro root or a ‘monk's head’ cactus with edible pulp for one and even two milreis.
- 2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress:
  Across the front flaps of bornais and along the cracked brims of the men's hats, she sewed green appliquéd circles resembling the monk's-head cactus.

单词	monk's head
释义	monk's head English Noun monk's head (plural monk's heads) (now rare) The dandelion. [from 15th c.] A cactus of the genus Melocactus, endemic to Brazil. 1984, Helen R. Lane, translating Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society 2012, p. 538: [A] quarter of a goat is going for thirty and forty milreis, a loaf of hard brown sugar for twenty, a cupful of manioc flour for five, an imbuzeiro root or a ‘monk's head’ cactus with edible pulp for one and even two milreis. 2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress: Across the front flaps of bornais and along the cracked brims of the men's hats, she sewed green appliquéd circles resembling the monk's-head cactus.
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