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tipiti|tɪpɪˈtiː|
[a. Tupi.]
A strainer used by Amazonian Indians for expressing the poisonous juice of the cassava.
1860Mayne Reid Odd People 52 A long elastic cylinder-shaped basket or net, of the bark of the ‘jacitara’ palm (Desmoncus macrocanthus). This is the tipiti. 1866Lindley & Moore Treas. Bot. i. 396/1 Indians use strips of the stem [of the Jacitara palm] for platting the tipitis or strainers used for squeezing out the poisonous juice of the mandioc root. 1952G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. i. 5 The South American tipiti is an elastic plaited cylinder of jacitara-palm bark which is used to express the juice of the cassava. |