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- noun Astrocaryum chambira, a type of
palm native to theAmazon rain forest , or the wood of this tree
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Examples
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The meat at the base of the neck was "basted" with chambira, to prevent its wearing and wasting away by handling in the succeeding operations.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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Hung round the house, suspended from the roof by chambira cord are various bunches of bananas in different stages of ripeness, ears of corn, blow-guns, and spears.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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The incision or slit from the crown to the base of the neck, was then sewn together again, with a bamboo needle and palm-leaf fibre (the chambira from which the hammocks, ropes, fish-lines and nets are made), leaving untouched for the moment the opening at the neck.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure 1923
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