Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
assai .
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Examples
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Clumps of the light and exquisitely graceful assai-palm shoot up everywhere on either side from the denser forest.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Here, too, grows the slender and graceful assai-palm, with its perfectly smooth trunk, -- the fruit appearing in a heavy cluster of berries just below the cluster of leaves on its summit.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The assai-palm, with its slender stem, its graceful head and delicate green plumes, is at first more numerous than any other.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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