babassu

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

ba=bas=su

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun babassu has 1 sense

babassu(n = noun.plant) babassu palm, coco de macao, orbignya martiana, orbignya phalerata, orbignya spesiosa - tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory;

is a kind of feather palm

is a member of genus orbignya, orbignya

has parts: babassu nut

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CIDE DICTIONARY

babassu, n.

a tall feather palm of northern Brazil (Orbignya barbosiana) with hard-shelled nuts yielding a valuable oil (babassu oil) and a kind of vegetable ivory. [WordNet 1.5]