tous-les-mois

[ too-luh-mwah ]

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

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How to use tous-les-mois in a sentence

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

Origin of tous-les-mois

C19: from French, literally: all the months, probably an attempt to give phonetic reproduction of tolomane, from native West Indian name

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