tipitin.
/tɪpɪˈtiː/ A strainer used by Amazonian Indians for expressing the poisonous juice of the cassava.
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1860 M. 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.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury 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.
1952 G. 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.
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