Naga

Naga is known in Japanese as yama-imo, a root vegetable with crisp white flesh and mild flavor notorious for oozing a mucous-like slime when sliced, as okra does.

You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » 2005 » November 2005

Naga is known in Japanese as yama-imo, a root vegetable with crisp white flesh and mild flavor notorious for oozing a mucous-like slime when sliced, as okra does.

You gonna eat that? Random musings on food and life in Orange County, California » Sheep dip - Mongolian hot pot at Little Sheep 2005

The bishop resided in Nueva Cáceres, in the province of Camarines, which was founded by the governor Francisco de Sande; but no other trace of that city has remained than the Indian village called Naga, which is the capital of the province and where the see is also located.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century Emma Helen Blair 1884

We got to the island around ten at night and found a cheap little place to stay right near the beach called Naga, which is after a Thai legend of the Naga serpent.

TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010

Echidnæ) who guard the earth-treasures in Naga-land.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Saturday the Buddha is seated under a Naga, which is a seven headed serpent, meditating.

Wendy Diamond: Thailand : Buddha's Animal Kingdom Wendy Diamond 2011

Esther lives in a flat in a suburb with her sisters Mary and Renu; the latter grows plants, "aloe vera, spinach, and what Renu calls 'Naga coriander'", thereby investing Delhi with a "touch of Manipur".

The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India by Siddhartha Deb – review 2011

The Mala is known also under the appellation of Haret el Naga, which is derived from the ancient name of Wady el Naga, given to this part of the valley of Mekka.

Travels in Arabia 2003

Tubers-occur in three recognized forms in Japan: thin cylindrical tubers often measuring I m in length, known as Naga-imo; a palmer form known as Icho-imo; and a globular form known as Tsukune-imo.

Chapter 37 1987

These hills are the backbone of Assam, and the Manipur ranges are a continuation of those known as the Naga Hills.

My Three Years in Manipur and Escape from the Recent Mutiny 1891