N. Zeal. [Maori name.] The sweet potato, Ipomæa edulis.
1773. S. Parkinson, Jrnl. S. Seas, in Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., X. ix. 124 (Morris). Several canoes came alongside … of whom we got some fish, kumeras or sweet potatoes, and several other things.
1884. Bracken, Lays of Maori, 18. Some more dainty toothsome dish Than the kumera and fish.
1900. Mrs. A. S. Boyd, in Blackw. Mag., Feb., 231/2. A great pie-dish full of kumaras.
