Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In tropical America, several trees of palm-like aspect with slender trunks surmounted by a crest of large leaves, especially various species of Cecropia. In Mexico the name is applied to C. peltata and C. Mexicana.
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Examples
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Aura looks out the taxi window and tries not to watch the homeless families and drunks, the trickle of pedestrians with their grinding solitudes; a haggard guarumo tree, blackened from soot.
The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010
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The ants, which inhabit the trunk of the guarumo, or jarumo, and destroy its interior cells, seem to impede its growth.
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Among these plants, peculiar to the fine region of the arborescent ferns, * some palm-trees rise in the openings, and some scattered groups of guarumo, or cecropia with silvery leaves.
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Among these plants, peculiar to the fine region of the arborescent ferns, * (* Called by the inhabitants of the country Region de los helechos.) some palm-trees rise in the openings, and some scattered groups of guarumo, or cecropia with silvery leaves.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The ants, which inhabit the trunk of the guarumo, or jarumo, and destroy its interior cells, seem to impede its growth.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Villa Perezoso, named for the property's original resident - a sloth who oversees things from his guarumo tree home, is now accepting bookings for Winter 2011.
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