taphrenchyma

[Gr. taphros =a ditch, and engchyma=infusion.] Bot .: [BOTHRENCHYMA.] *tăp-in-age (age as Ig), s. [Fr. tapinois = by stealth.] A lurking or skulking. (Gower: C. A. , v.) tăp-1-ō-ca, s. [The Brazilian Indian name.] Food Products : The powdered root or rhizome of Manihot utili ima ( Jatropha manihot ). The root, which is about thirty pounds in weight, and is full of a poisonous juice, is washed, rasped, or rasped and grated, to a pulp. This, being well bruised and thoroughly washed, is heated on iron plates, by which proce the poison is drawn off. The powder, when dry, consists of pure starch, and is baked into bread by the natives of Central America. In the United States and Europe it is generally made into puddings, and forms a light and nutritious diet. Pearl tapioca is made from prepared grain. IMG:content-0813.jpg:[blocks in formation] are smaller. They are round at one end, and truncated at the other. The hilum, which is situated at the round end of the granule, is, in some, a slit, in others a distinct cro . Like sago, it is frequently added to the cheaper varieties of arrowroot.