Potato - Law Dictionary Search Results
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the name of a dance briefly popular in the 1960s...
inositol
A white crystalline substance C6H12O6 with a sweet taste widely distributed in certain animal tissues and fluids particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs and also in some plants as in unripe pease beans potato sprouts etc Although isomeric with dextrose it has no carbonyl aldehyde or ketone group and is therefore not a carbohydrate but a derivative of cyclohexane Called also inosite cyclohexitol cyclohexanehexol hexahydroxycyclohexane and phaseomannite There are nine possible steroisomers not all of which are found naturally The predominate natural form is cis 1235 trans 46 cyclohexanehexol also called myo inositol The naturally occurring phytic acid in plants is the hexaphosphate of inositol from which inositol may be manufactured phytin is the calcium magnesium salt of phytic acid It is also a component of phosphatidylinositol...
Fusel
A hot acrid oily liquid accompanying many alcoholic liquors as potato whisky corn whisky etc as an undesirable ingredient and consisting of several of the higher alcohols and compound ethers but mostly of amyl alcohol...
Dasheen
A tropical aroid of the genus Caladium syn Colocasia having an edible farinaceous root It is related to the taro and to the tanier but is much superior to it in quality and is as easily cooked as the potato It is a staple food plant of the tropics being prepared like potatoes and has been introduced into the Southern United States...
Bluenose
A nickname for a Nova Scotian also a Nova Scotian ship called also Bluenoser unr a Nova Scotian potato etc...
Batatas
An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato Ipomaeliga batatas...
VerbarIpomoeliga
A genus of twining plants with showy monopetalous flowers including the morning glory the sweet potato and the cypress vine...
mashed potatoes
Potatoes which have been boiled and mashed to a pulpy consistency usu with sparing addition of milk salt butter or other flavoring It is a popular accompaniment to a meat course US 1900s providing bulk and calories to a meal...
Pureacutee
A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve as a pureacutee of fish or of potatoes especially a soup the thickening of which is so treated...
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English)
Corn Sales Act, 1921 (English), provides, with cer-tain exceptions, that all sales of corn (i.e., wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize, and the bran and meal therefrom) shall be by weight and in terms of and by reference to the one hundred weight of 112 imperial standard pounds, otherwise transactions are null and void. The Act also applies to dried peas, dried beans, linseed and potatoes, and to the seeds of grass, clover, vetches, Swedes, field turnips, rape, filed cabbages, field kale, field kohl-rabi, mangels, beet and sugarbeet, flax and sainfoin. By s. 5 ibid. the price and value under any Act, award, or instrument of an imperial bushel shall have effect as if the price or value were calculated on that of sixty imperial pounds of wheat, fifty of barley and thirty nine of oats....
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