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staple food
noun as in staff of life
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Speke, Stanley, and the other African explorers frequently mention plantains as the staple food of the natives.
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The chief grain raised is millet, the staple food of the people.
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The staple food should be canary seed mixed with rape, and there must always be a piece of cuttle-fish fastened in the cage.
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Poi, the staple food of the natives, was present in abundance.
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Even of the fish which formed a staple food on the English workman's table, two-thirds of the supply was purchased from the Dutch.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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