ROCK TRIPE Definition & Meaning

rock tripe

rock tripe

any of various edible lichens, esp of the genus Umbilicaria , that grow on rocks and are used in the North as a survival food

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First recorded in 1850–55; allegedly so called in reference to the appearance of the thallus

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"Probably," says Margry, "he must, from time to time, have added some of the lichen which the Canadians call rock tripe."

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The most wonderful of all is probably the greenish-black rock tripe, found on the bleakest, highest rocks in the northern parts of this continent.

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We lived for weeks on reindeer moss and rock tripe.

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