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Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
Answer for the clue "Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory ", 7 letters:
babassu
Word definitions for babassu in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n : tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory [syn: babassu palm , coco de macao , Orbignya phalerata , Orbignya spesiosa , Orbignya martiana ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
babassu \babassu\ n. 1. a tall feather palm of northern Brazil ( Orbignya barbosiana ) with hard-shelled nuts yielding a valuable oil ( ) with hard-shelled nuts yielding a valuable oil ( ) and a kind of vegetable ivory. Syn: babassu palm, coco de macao, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a tall Brazilian feather palm, ''Orbignya barbosiana'', having hard-shelled nuts that yield an edible oil
Usage examples of babassu.
Which meant simply that it was higher ground, well-drained, that there were tall babassu palms, the fronds of which met overhead to form a cathedral-like effect with the last of the evening sunlight streaming down.