Word: plantain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Africa last week harvesting the pods of the cacao tree. Shaped like a football and nearly as big, the yellow or red pods are tossed into heaps by the cutters, who return to slice them open, scoop out the cocoa beans and pile them in boxes or wrappings of plantain leaf for a week's fermentation. They are then dried brown, either in kilns or in the sun, and sacked. Many an Accra tribesman has toted two 60 lb. "headloads" of cocoa beans on a day's trek from plantation to trading post. In New York and London...
...Each of the Manhattan apartment-dwellers who filed through the building was handed a little pamphlet warning him that to preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs him go for Blue-eyed grass. Bouncing Bet, Horse Mint...