tripe de roc he

[Lit.rock-tripe.] A vegetable substance furnished by various species of Gyrophora and Umbilicaria belonging to the tribe of Lichens. It is extensively used as an article of food by hunters in the arctic regions of North America, and is nutritive, but bitter and purgative, tripe-man, subst. A man who prepares and sells tripe. IMG:content-1460.png:[blocks in formation] 4191