Canna edulis

Canna edulis
Tous-les-mois Tous`-les`-mois", n. [F., all the months, i. e., every month.] A kind of starch with very large, oval, flattened grains, often sold as arrowroot, and extensively used for adulterating cocoa. It is made from the rootstocks of a species of {Canna}, probably {Canna edulis}, the tubers of which are edible every month in the year. [1913 Webster]

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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