Difference between revisions of "bitterleaf"
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===Etymology=== | ===Etymology=== | ||
From: English ''bitter'' and ''leaf''. | From: English ''bitter'' and ''leaf''. | ||
| + | Botanical name: ''Vernonia amygdalina'' | ||
===Pronunciation=== | ===Pronunciation=== | ||
Revision as of 12:27, 14 May 2021
Naija
Alternative forms
Etymology
From: English bitter and leaf. Botanical name: Vernonia amygdalina
Pronunciation
- bìtàlîf
Frequency
- Frequency in NSC treebank: 7
- Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 975
- Frequency in raw corpus: 18
- Frequency rank in raw corpus: 5700
Noun
Na plant wey no dey sweet wey de dey use take make soup or medicine.
- Bitterleaf soup dey sweet well well. — (Egbokhare_2012, Bitter leaf soup is very delicious.)
- Uh for today cooking now, I go teach una how dem dey take cook bitterleaf soup. — (deuber__3933, In today's cookery lesson, you will learn how to cook bitterleaf soup.)
Related forms
Translations
- English: vernonia amygdalina