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单词 tous-les-mois
释义

tous-les-mois

[ too-luh-mwah ]
/ ˌtu ləˈmwɑ /

noun

a large-grained farinaceous food resembling arrowroot, obtained from a South American canna, Canna edulis, and used in baby food.

Origin of tous-les-mois

1830–40; <French: all the months, said to be by folk etymology from Antillean Creole toloman, of uncertain origin

Words nearby tous-les-mois

Tours, tourtière, touse, tousle, tousled, tous-les-mois, Toussaint L'Ouverture, tout, tout à fait, tout à vous, tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner
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Example sentences from the Web for tous-les-mois

  • The granules of tous-les-mois are readily distinguishable by their very large size (fig. 5).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6|Various
  • Its globules are much smaller and less glistening than those of Tous-les-mois, or potato starch.

    The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom|P. L. Simmonds

British Dictionary definitions for tous-les-mois

tous-les-mois
/ (ˌtuːleɪˈmwɑː) /

noun

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
Also called: Queensland arrowroot the tuber of this plant, used as a source of starch

Word Origin for tous-les-mois

C19: from French, literally: all the months, probably an attempt to give phonetic reproduction of tolomane, from native West Indian name
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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