单词 | queensland arrowroot |
释义 | Queensland arrowroot in British Englishnoun another name for tous-les-mois (sense 2) tous-les-mois in British English (ˌtuːleɪˈmwɑː) noun 1. a large widely cultivated plant, Canna edulis, of the Caribbean and South America, having purplish stems and leaves, bright red flowers and edible tubers: family Cannaceae 2. Also called: Queensland arrowroot the tuber of this plant, used as a source of starch Word origin C19: from French, literally: all the months, probably an attempt to give phoneticreproduction of tolomane, from native West Indian name |
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