Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Brazilian feather-leaved palm (Orbignya phalerata) having hard-shelled fruits whose seeds yield an oil used in food and skin-care products and as a biofuel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a tall
Brazilian feather palm, Orbignya barbosiana, having hard-shellednuts that yield anedible oil
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- noun tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Virgin Atlantic in 2008 became the first airline to fly with biofuel—in that instance derived from coconut and babassu palm oil that was used in a 20% mix in one of the Boeing 747's four fuel tanks.
Virgin Australia Researching Eucalyptus Leaves As Jet Fuel Ross Kelly 2011
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People and the Palm Forest: Biology and utilization of babassu palms in Maranhão, Brazil.
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Mrs. Lopes rallied the women to stand in the path of a bulldozer bearing down on their babassu palm forest.
At Brazil's Museum of the Person, 10,000 Voices Tell a Nation's Story 2009
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Other airlines have already tested algae and oil from the jatropha plant and the babassu nut.
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I was interested to see that Virgin Atlantic flew a 747 from London's Heathrow Airport to Amsterdam, fueled partly by coconuts and Brazilian babassu nuts.
READING AND DANCING BETWEEN THE LINES News from Mad Plato 2008
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I've never seen a babassu nut, but it's amazing that it helped power an airplane the size of a 747.
Archive 2008-03-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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On Sunday, Virgin Airlines flew a jumbo jet from London to Amsterdam powered in part by coconuts ( "a biofuel mixture of coconut and babassu oil" to be more precise).
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I was interested to see that Virgin Atlantic flew a 747 from London's Heathrow Airport to Amsterdam, fueled partly by coconuts and Brazilian babassu nuts.
Archive 2008-03-01 News from Mad Plato 2008
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The plane's one engine flew successfully using fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu nuts and coconuts.
Stefanie Michaels: Virgin America Joins EPA Climate Leaders Program 2008
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I've never seen a babassu nut, but it's amazing that it helped power an airplane the size of a 747.
READING AND DANCING BETWEEN THE LINES News from Mad Plato 2008
bilby commented on the word babassu
Hmmm. Definr.com has this definition:
n : tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
Orbignya spesiosa, Orbignya martiana'>syn: babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, Orbignya martiana
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January 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word babassu
And what on earth would you do with 'vegetable ivory'?
January 4, 2008
reesetee commented on the word babassu
I've seen clothing that has buttons made of vegetable ivory.
January 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word babassu
You mean ... you mean ... this stuff hasn't caused eggplant elephants to be hunted to the brink of extinction? That I can put my conscience away and start wearing clothes again after all these years?
January 5, 2008
reesetee commented on the word babassu
Yes. Yes, please, bilby--put away your conscience and put on some clothes!
January 5, 2008