Dictionary entry
tekws-key • n • manroot • wild cucumber, pickle • Variant tekw-sew
Lexicon record # 3456 | Source reference(s):
YM272 R254 JE36
Semantic
domains: plants and trees; food, drink, and cooking
Other paradigm form
plural tekw-soh AF(JB8/22/2001)
Sentence examples (2)
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Tekws-key.
Cucumber.
— Georgiana Trull, Yurok Language Conversation Book, chapter 25: "Foods/Dishes" (GT3-25, 2003)
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[Nepoyoch hes wee' k'ee tekws-key?] Paa'...
[Is the pickle a nepoyoch?] No... — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)