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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A Brazilian feather-leaved palm (Orbignya barbosiana) having hard-shelled fruits whose seeds yield an edible vegetable oil.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a tall Brazilian feather palm, Orbignya barbosiana, having hard-shelled nuts that yield an edible oil

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. 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 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. From Portuguese, from Tupi (Wiktionary)
  2. Portuguese babaçú, from Tupi babassú, ibabassú : ibá, fruit + -bassú, variant of -assú, -guassú, big. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • reesetee Yes. Yes, please, bilby--put away your conscience and put on some clothes! Jan 4, 2008

  • bilby 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? Jan 4, 2008

  • reesetee I've seen clothing that has buttons made of vegetable ivory. Jan 4, 2008

  • bilby And what on earth would you do with 'vegetable ivory'? Jan 4, 2008

  • bilby 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
    syn: babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, Orbignya martiana

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