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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small palm of Brazil, the Maximiliana insignis. Its trunk yields a hard reddish wood.
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Here also are numerous graceful palms, -- the cocorite, from which the Indians form their poisoned arrows; the troali, with broad and long leaves, used for thatching their huts.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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