Meanings
- not comparableBefore the introduction of the potato to Europe from the New World.
In Ireland, land became scarce relative to the rapidly growing population in the early nineteenth century, whereupon fertility began a retreat to its low, prepotato level.
1997, The St. Croix Review, volume 30, page 32
Origin
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