noun
tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts
• Syn: ↑gri-gri, ↑grugru palm, ↑macamba, ↑Acrocomia aculeata
• Hypernyms: ↑feather palm
• Part Meronyms: ↑grugru nut
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\\ˈgrü(ˌ)grü\ noun (-s)Etymology: American Spanish (Puerto Rico) grugrú, of Cariban origin; akin to Yao grugru, literally, basket made of grugru
1. also grugru palm or gri-gri \\ˈgrē(ˌ)grē\ : any of several tropical American spiny palms (as the West Indian Acrocomia aculeata and the Brazilian A. sclerocarpa)
2. or grugru grub also grugru worm : a large edible grub that is the larva of certain tropical American weevils (genus Rhyncophorus) and that develops in and feeds on the pith of coconut and other palm trees and sometimes sugarcane
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/grooh"grooh/, n.
1. any of several spiny-trunked, tropical feather palms, as Acrocomia totai, of tropical America, having a swollen trunk with rings of blackish spines.
2. Also called grugru grub, grugru worm. the larva of any of several South American billbugs, as Rhynchophorus cruentatus, that feeds on the pith of palm trees, sugar cane, etc., and is sometimes prized as food.
[1895-1900; < AmerSp grugrú < Carib]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.