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Noun: tortoise plant
  1. South African vine having a massive rootstock covered with deeply fissured bark
    - elephant's-foot, Hottentot bread vine, Hottentot's bread vine, Dioscorea elephantipes

Derived forms: tortoise plants

Type of: vine

Part of: Dioscorea, genus Dioscorea

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