Definition of Tacahout

1. a gall on the tamarisk [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tacahout

tabulated
tabulates
tabulating
tabulation
tabulations
tabulator
tabulators
tabule
tabuli
tabulis
tabulæ rasæ
tabun
tabuns
tabus
tac
tacahout (current term)
tacahouts
tacamahac
tacamahaca
tacamahacs
tacan
tacans
tacaribe complex viruses
tacaribe virus
tacaud
tace
taces
tacet
tach
tach up

Literary usage of Tacahout

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"tacahout, ta'ká-hrot' (native name). The small gall formed on the tamarisk ... tacahout is one of the sources of gallic acid, of which it contains a large ..."

2. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"... the Polynesian chiefs hare been adepts in the art of turning the religious feelings of their countrymen to their own account tacahout is the name given, ..."

3. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"It must not be confounded with tacahout (qv). BACCONI'GI, a town in the west of Northern Italy, pleasantly situated on the Maira, 24 miles south ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"tacahout is the name given, in Algiers, by the Arabs to the small gall formed on the Tamarisk tree, ..."

5. Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University by Ethelyn Maria Tucker, Charles Sprague Sargent (1917)
"Le tacahout, Tamarix articulata leur valeur an point de vue du reboisement. Paris. [1890.] Webb, PB Tamarix gallica of ..."

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