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
tourniquet,
tournois,
tours,
tourtière,
touré,
tous-les-mois,
touse,
tousle,
tousled,
toussaint l'ouverture,
tout
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).
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