| 单词 | tous-les-mois starch |
| 释义 | > as lemmastous-les-mois starch The name in St. Kitts, etc., of species of Canna, esp. C. edulis, and of the starch obtained from its root-stocks, also called tous-les-mois starch. Canna coccinea was introduced into the West Indies from South America in 1731; C. edulis from Peru in 1820 (A. W. Hill, Kew). Samples of the farina were sent to England from St. Kitts in 1835–6: see Ryan's Med. & Surg. Jrnl. Aug. 1836, and Morning Chron. 4 Aug. 1837. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > vegetable extracts or preparations > [noun] > starch > types of faecula1684 tous-les-mois1839 corn starch1862 1839 Olphers Let. cited in Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 7 56 (On the Canna Achira or Tous les Mois). 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 787 The article known as Tous-les-mois is obtained from the root-stocks of some species of Canna... The substance is prepared in the island of St. Kitts. 1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 669 One or more species of this genus [sc. Canna] yield ‘Tous les mois’, a very pure and useful starch, now largely consumed in this country and elsewhere. 1867 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 6) i. ii. 153 The larger-grained starches form splendid objects; tous-les-mois being the largest may be taken as a type of all the others. < as lemmas |
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