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Definition of Ivory-nut palm
1. Noun. A stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts.
Generic synonyms: Feather Palm
Group relationships: Genus Phytelephas, Phytelephas
Terms within: Apple Nut, Ivory Nut, Vegetable Ivory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ivory-nut Palm
Literary usage of Ivory-nut palm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trukese-English Dictionary by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"ivory nut palm us (nu.): fiber strip from the stalk of a coconut frond or ivory
nut palm frond, used to sew leaves together on a reed in making thatch or to ..."
2. Under Heaven's Brow: Pre-Christian Religious Tradition in Chuuk by Ward Hunt Goodenough (2002)
"... (ivory nut palm) (Kramer 1932:227). 12. LeBar (1963) provides examples of such
measurements he obtained from a 'house expert' on ..."
3. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1849)
"ivory-nut palm (Phytelephas macrocarpa). The Singular palm which produces the
nuts so long known in our turnery shops, and which have constituted an ..."
4. A World-pilgrimage by John Henry Barrows (1897)
"Here are the ivory-nut palm, and the prickly palm, and the cabbage palm, and the
date palm, the toddy palm, the sago palm ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1899)
"Warburg gives some interesting information concerning the "ivory-nut" palm of
the Solomon Islands, which is closely related to the true sago palm, and, ..."
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