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rock moss

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an edible lichen of the genus, Umbilicaria (or, less often, the genus Gyrophora), having circular, leathery, grayto-brownish thalli found attached to certain rocks by a threadlike holdfast.

See: rock-tripe

Quotations

1801

Its chief vegetable substance is the moss, on which the deer feed; and a kind of rock moss, which, in times of scarcity, preserves the lives of the natives.

1957

He also had tripe-de-roche or rock moss, which some Indians boiled and ate with relish but which David thought tasted exactly like rock moss.