Wiktionary
tagua
n. The fruit of the tagua palm. When dried, it can be carved like ivory, and is used for beads, buttons, etc.
Usage examples of "tagua".
No one on board slept well that night, but the attack did not materialize, and in the morning the port was transformed into a Sunday fair, with Indians selling Tagua amulets and love potions amid packs of animals ready to begin the six-day ascent to the orchid jungles of the central mountain range.
It is called the Tagua, McKenzie says, and its source is high up in the Tagua mountains.
But if you close your eyes one quiet summer's evening in his shop, you may just hear the distant echo of Harry Pendel's voice extolling the virtues of alpaca cloth or buttons made of tagua nut.