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‖ tripe de roche|trip də rɔʃ|
[F., ‘rock tripe’, from the appearance of the thallus.]
A name originally given in Canada to various edible lichens of the genera Gyrophora and Umbilicaria, which afford a slightly nutritious but bitter and purgative food. Also called rock tripe.
1809A. Henry Trav. 221, I found a very high rock, and this covered with a lichen, which the Chipeways call waac, and the Canadians, tripe de roche. 1861H. Macmillan Footn. fr. Page Nat. 99 A bitter and nauseous lichen, to which the name of Tripe de Roche (Gyrophora) has been given, as if in mockery. |