No word for legume
I remember a story from grad school about a people in the Amazon Basin who had no word for “parrot”, because they knew the names of all the individual species of parrots.
I was reminded of that this week in Peru, where I was teaching a course on how to write fact sheets and video scripts for a popular audience.
Title of publication: Access Agriculture Blog
Author: Jeff Bentley
Organization: Access Agriculture
Other organizations: Access Agriculture Blog
Year: 2020
Country/ies: Peru
Geographical coverage: Latin America and the Caribbean
Type: Blog article
Full text available at: https://www.accessagriculture.org/no-word-legume
Content language: English