Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tree that yields the sapucaia-nut.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A Brazilian tree. See
lecythis , andmonkey-pot . - noun (Bot.) the seed of the sapucaia; -- called also
paradise nut .
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- noun A
Brazilian tree , the monkey-pot.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dr. Scott Mori holding fruits of the '' sapucaia '' ( '' Lecythis '' '' pisonis ''), a member of the Brazil nut family.
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Because their cognitive faculties are not developed enough to understand that extracting their paws requires letting go of the nuts, they end up dragging their sapucaia handcuffs around for miles.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Because their cognitive faculties are not developed enough to understand that extracting their paws requires letting go of the nuts, they end up dragging their sapucaia handcuffs around for miles.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Because their cognitive faculties are not developed enough to understand that extracting their paws requires letting go of the nuts, they end up dragging their sapucaia handcuffs around for miles.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Michael Rothman painting of Phyllostomus hastatus carrying away a seed of the sapucaia.
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Michael Rothman painting of a female carpenter bee visiting a flower of the sapucaia.
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As an example of adaptations for pollination and dispersal, the pollination and dispersal systems of the sapucaia (Lecythis pisonis), a species native to eastern Amazonian Brazil and Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, are described.
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The sapucaia has bilaterally symmetrical flowers (Fig. 2) that possess both sterile and fertile pollen in the same flower.
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The fruit of the sapucaia (Fig. 4) is the largest of all Lecythidaceae.
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"monkey-pot tree," whose great woody pericarps serve as drinking vessels; and the _Lecythis Zabucajo_, whose fruit is known in the market as sapucaia nuts, and is greatly superior to the closely allied Brazil nuts as regards flavor and ease of digestion.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 Various
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