Definition of Pupunha

1. the peach-palm [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pupunha

puppy love
puppy mill
puppy mills
puppydom
puppydoms
puppyhood
puppyhoods
puppying
puppyish
puppyishly
puppyism
puppyisms
puppylike
pups
pupu
pupunha (current term)
pupunhas
pupus
pupusa
pupusas
pupuseria
pupuserias
pupylation
pupæ
pur
pur et dur
pur laine
puranas
purau
purblind

Literary usage of Pupunha

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The naturalist on the river Amazons by Henry Walter Bates (1863)
"The celebrated " Peach palm," pupunha of the Tupi nations (Guilielma ... Vultures devour it eagerly, and come in quarrelsome flocks to pupunha Palm, ..."

2. Riches of the Forest: Fruits, Remedies and Handicrafts in Latin America by Citlalli López Binnqüist, Patricia Shanley, Alfredo Celso Fantini (2004)
"Others choose to climb neighbouring trees or build makeshift scaffolding. The arrival of the pupunha season was traditionally celebrated with harvest ..."

3. The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of by Henry Walter Bates (1864)
"The pupunha grows wild nowhere on the Amazons. It is one of those few vegetable productions (including three kinds of mandioca and the American species of ..."

4. The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of by Henry Walter Bates (1884)
"The celebrated " Peach palm," pupunha of the ... The pupunha grows wild nowhere on the Amazons. It is one of those few vegetable productions (including ..."

5. Transactions by Massachusetts Horticultural Society (1881)
"Bates|| says the " pupunha" grows wild nowhere on the Amazons, but has been cultivated from time immemorial ... Seemann^f says the " pupunha" of the Amazon, ..."

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