Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given in some parts of Brazil to the sloth.
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Examples
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The Piritus take their name from the ravine Pirichucuar, where the small thorny palm-tree, * called piritu, grows in abundance; the wood of this tree, which is excessively hard, and little combustible, serves to make pipes.
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Pirichucuar, where the small thorny palm-tree, * called piritu, grows in abundance (* Caudice gracili aculeato, foliis pinnatis.
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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Palm-trees are rare; we saw only a few scattered trunks of the thorny piritu and corozo.
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Corozo del Sinu* pressed against each other, which formed heretofore our species Alfonsia, yielding oil in abundance; the Cocos butyracea, called here palma dolce or palma real, and very different from the palma real of the island of Cuba; the palma amarga, with fan-leaves that serve to cover the roofs of houses, and the latta, * resembling the small piritu palm-tree of the Orinoco.
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Guayaval, especially the piritu with pinnate leaves, * and the moriche
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This tree is very common in these mountains; but not having seen either its fruit or its flowers, we are ignorant whether it be the piritu palm-tree of the Caribbees, or the Cocos aculeata of Jacquin.
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In the mission of San Fernando, a tree which gives a peculiar physiognomy to the landscape, is the piritu or pirijao palm.
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Caribbean names, means a ravine, as in Guaymacuar (ravine of lizards), Pirichucuar (a ravine overshaded by pirichu or piritu palm-trees), Chiguatacuar (a ravine of land-shells).
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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This tree is very common in these mountains; but not having seen either its fruit or its flowers, we are ignorant whether it be the piritu palm-tree of the Caribbees, or the
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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In the mission of San Fernando, a tree which gives a peculiar physiognomy to the landscape, is the piritu or pirijao palm.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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