Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
lacent leurs feuilles en étoiles
English translation:
interweave their star-shaped leaves and chalice-like flowers
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B D Finch
Apr 3, 2016 23:33
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lacent leurs feuilles en étoiles
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Art/Literary
Botany
In An Autobiography
Contexte:
...les maniocs juxtaposent leurs bosquets décoratifs et les humbles patate douces, ces volubilis des tropiques, lacent leurs feuilles en étoiles et leurs fleurs en calices.
Merci Beaucoup,
Barbara
...les maniocs juxtaposent leurs bosquets décoratifs et les humbles patate douces, ces volubilis des tropiques, lacent leurs feuilles en étoiles et leurs fleurs en calices.
Merci Beaucoup,
Barbara
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Apr 17, 2016 17:03: B D Finch Created KOG entry
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interweave their star-shaped leaves and chalice-like flowers
The star-shaped leaves belong to the maniocs and the chalice-like flowers to the sweet potatoes.
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: I like your suggestion, although I think star-shaped leaves and chalice-like flowers both belong to the sweet potatoes. I prefer "chalice-like" to "chalice-shaped".
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Thanks Nikki. Googling images of sweet potato plants doesn't show any with leaves like those shown in your Larousse ref.
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Jenefer Bonczyk
: Agree with Nikki - I think chalice-like is better and both refer to sweet potatoes
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Thanks. It is possible that this is a variety of sweet potato that has star-shaped leaves, but most don't, while manioc does.
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send out their palmate leaves
Cassava or manioc leaves grow in a palmate (or star-like) arrangement.
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Jenefer Bonczyk
: I understood this to refer to the sweet potatoes though, not the cassava. Cassava flowers are much smaller.
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their star-shaped leaves intertwine with chalice-shaped flowers
interlace is another option...
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Nikki Scott-Despaigne
: Rephrase perhaps to make clear that the star-shaped leaves and the chalice-shaped flowers both belong to the sweet spud ;-) :http://www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie/images/Patate_douce/1005... //BD, yes odd image compared to sweet pot. in my kitchen too!
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B D Finch
: Everywhere but Larousse, sweet potato leaves are heart-shaped.
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I'm not sure, the photos of this site show varying leaf types - some heart-shaped and some starred: http://jardinage.ooreka.fr/plante/voir/313/patate-douce. Also possible that 'patate douce' is used colloquially for more than one plant..
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