bergmeal

• bergmehl

From German Berg (“mountain”) + Mehl (“meal”).

bergmeal (uncountable)

1. An earthy substance, resembling fine flour, composed of the shells of infusoria.

   Bergmeal was sometimes mixed into food during times of scarcity in Scandanavia.

2. mountain meal

• “bergmeal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.