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BABASSU
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
Synonyms:
babassu; babassu palm; coco de macao; Orbignya martiana; Orbignya phalerata; Orbignya spesiosa
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("babassu" is a kind of...):
feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)
Meronyms (parts of "babassu"):
babassu nut (hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm)
Holonyms ("babassu" is a member of...):
genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)
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