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Definition of Tacca
1. Noun. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Genus
Group relationships: Family Taccaceae, Taccaceae
Member holonyms: Indian Arrowroot, Pia, Tacca Leontopetaloides, Tacca Pinnatifida
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tacca
Literary usage of Tacca
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food and Its Adulterations: Comprising the Reports of the Analytical by Arthur Hill Hassall (1855)
"Tacca arrow-root is a white, starch - like powder, having a slightly musty odour.
... Tacca arrow-root has been sold in London for some years, in packages, ..."
2. Food and Its Adulterations: Comprising the Reports of the Analytical by Arthur Hill Hassall (1855)
"The strained liquor is Fig. is. received in a wooden Tacca arrow-root is a white,
... Tacca arrow-root has been sold in London for some years, in packages, ..."
3. Adulterations Detected; Or, Plain Instructions for the Discovery of Frauds by Arthur Hill Hassall (1857)
"Tacca arrowroot is obtained from the tubers of Tacca oceanica, a native of the
South Sea Islands, after the chief of which, Tahiti or Otaheite, ..."
4. Dizionario italiano ed inglese: = A Dictionary Italian and English ...by Ferdinando Altieri by Ferdinando Altieri (1726)
"[piccol ta»lio] a notch. f tally* Tacca [quel roco di mancamento, ... Avère fotto
la tacca del zoccolo [avère in (no potere] ti have a thing in one's ..."
5. Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615 by Richard Cocks, Edward Maunde Thompson (1883)
"... to goo for Isla Formosa (called by them Tacca Sanga) to trade for silke, are
run away for China with all the money and left their ..."
6. Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-merchant in the English Factory in Japan, 1615 by Richard Cocks, Edward Maunde Thompson (1883)
"... to goe for Isla Formosa (called by them Tacca Sanga) to trade for silke, are
run away for China with all the money and left their ..."
7. Annals of the Artists of Spain by William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"... at Florence, by Pietro Tacca, from a picture by Velazquez and a model by
Montanes.4 This fine work, perhaps the best equestrian statue which modern art ..."
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