BABASSU PALM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does babassu palm mean? 

• BABASSU PALM (noun)
  The noun BABASSU PALM has 1 sense:

1. tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

  Familiarity information: BABASSU PALM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BABASSU PALM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

babassu; babassu palm; coco de macao; Orbignya martiana; Orbignya phalerata; Orbignya spesiosa

Hypernyms ("babassu palm" is a kind of...):

feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "babassu palm"):

babassu nut (hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm)

Holonyms ("babassu palm" is a member of...):

genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the seeds of the babassu palm.

(Babassu Oil, NCI Thesaurus)