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babassu
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun babassu has 1 sense
- babassu(n = noun.plant) babassu palm, coco de macao, orbignya martiana, orbignya phalerata, orbignya spesiosa - tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory; Array is a kind of feather palm
is a member of genus orbignya, orbignya
has parts: babassu nut
CIDE DICTIONARY
babassu, n.
a tall feather palm of northern Brazil (Orbignya barbosiana ) with hard-shelled nuts yielding a valuable oil ( babassu oil ) and a kind of vegetable ivory. [WordNet 1.5]
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