palm-nut

• “From furniture works to dress-making class to palm-nut oil pots, Dr. Kofi Sam is barking out variations on his evangelical theme: West Africa can provide the essentials for itself (food, clothing, shelter and healthcare) if only it first licks a second AIDS crisis -- the Acquired Import Dependency Syndrome.”

  The Huffington Post: Ghana Speaking (III): Kofi Sam's Model of African Self-Sufficiency

• “Back in the 1980s, Mrs. Lopes helped lead a group of women palm-nut processors in a battle for survival against pistol-packing ranchers on the edge of the Amazon jungle.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At Brazil's Museum of the Person, 10,000 Voices Tell a Nation's Story

• “The Hyphaene palms to the west of the pans are nesting sites for, among others, the greater kestrel (Falco rupicoloides) and the palm-nut vulture (Gypohierax angolensis).”

  Zambezian halophytics

• “They are, however, eaten by them, and when cooked with the oil and pulp of the palm-nut considered a highly palatable morsel.”

  Essays

• “They are like taluses and must have fish oil or palm-nut oil for their engines.”

  Calde of the Long Sun

• “I heard the bone collapse with a sound like a palm-nut crushed in the jaws of a feeding elephant.”

  River God

• “Under this heading should also be included stearines produced by submitting distilled fat to hydraulic pressure, the distillates from e from unsaponifiable matter, cocoa-nut oleine, a bye-product from the manufacture of edible cocoa-nut butter and consisting largely of free acids, and palm-nut oleine obtained in a similar manner from palm-nut oil.”

  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture

• “This oil closely resembles cocoa-nut and palm-nut oils and is stated to saponify readily and yield a soap free from odour.”

  The Handbook of Soap Manufacture

• “This year I have not found more than 17 per cent. of fat in any sample of palm-nut cake.”

  The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock

• “But although inferior samples are occasionally met with, I may say of palm-nut cake that on the whole it is a food which deserves to be largely used, and which at its present price is the most economical source of fat.”

  The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock

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