noun
tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
• Syn: ↑babassu, ↑babassu palm, ↑Orbignya phalerata, ↑Orbignya spesiosa, ↑Orbignya martiana
• Hypernyms: ↑feather palm
• Member Holonyms: ↑Orbignya, ↑genus Orbignya
• Part Meronyms: ↑babassu nut
Useful english dictionary. 2012.