venerous

As food historian Andrew F. Smith shows in "Potato: A Global History" Reaktion, 142 pages, $15.95 , even the lowly spud packs a lot of colorful history, including a fleeting aphrodisiacal reputation: It was described by one 16th-century British writer as a lust-enhancing "venerous root."

Single Servings Aram Bakshian Jr. 2011

[5718] Montaigne the Frenchman in his Essays, that the skilfulest masters of amorous dalliance, appoint for a remedy of venerous passions, a full survey of the body; which the poet insinuates,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Of the potato, and such venerous roots as are brought out of Spain, Portugal, and the Indies to furnish up our banquets, I speak not, wherein our mures [1] of no less force, and to be had about Crosby-Ravenswath, do now begin to have place.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

Of the potato, and such venerous roots as are brought out of Spain, Portugal, and the Indies to furnish up our banquets, I speak not, wherein our mures1 of no less force, and to be had about Crosby-Ravenswath, do now begin to have place.

Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6 1909