Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An elegant palm, Oncosperma filamentosa, growing massed in swamps in the Malay archipelago.

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  • Oncosperma fillimentosa, the nibung palm, grows on brackish lowlands just behind mangrove stands in India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines.

    Chapter 10 1990

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