rock tripe
any lichen of the genus Umbilicaria.
Origin of rock tripe
1- Also called tripe-de-roche.
Words Nearby rock tripe
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How to use rock tripe in a sentence
The stone was mostly covered by ragged, bluish-green rock-tripe in partly overlapping sheets.
Nightmare Planet | Murray LeinsterThere was one cable Burl had missed, hidden by rock-tripe and mould in a depressed part of the cliff-top.
The Forgotten Planet | Murray LeinsterThe stone was mostly covered by bluish-green rock-tripe in partly overlapping sheets.
The Forgotten Planet | Murray LeinsterWe used to eat a kind of moss called rock-tripe, sweetened bark, and May-apples, that tasted of the peach and the raspberry.
Atala | Franois Auguste de ChateaubriandOn reaching the rock, they saw what Norman had meant by the words tripe de roche (rock-tripe).
The Young Voyageurs | Mayne Reid
British Dictionary definitions for rock tripe
Canadian any of various edible lichens, esp of the genus Umbilicaria, that grow on rocks and are used in the North as a survival food
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