Definition of Moriche

1. a miriti palm [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moriche

morglays
morgue
morguelike
morgues
moria
morian
morias
moribund
moribundities
moribundity
moribundly
moribundness
moribunds
moric
moric acid
moriche (current term)
moriches
moricizine
moriform
morigeration
morigerous
morikrase
moril
morils
morimotoite
morin
morin khuur
morinamide
morinda
morindas

Literary usage of Moriche

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

1. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1879)
"Of this splendid palm, Kingsley writes as follows in At Last: — "The noble moriche palm delights in wet, at least in Trinidad and on the lower Orinoco; ..."

2. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during by Alexander von Humboldt (1885)
"The moriche grows best in moist places; and it may rather be said that the water attracts the tree. The natives of the Orinoco, by analogous reasoning, ..."

3. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"From the pith of the moriche- palm they obtain a kind of sago-meal, and this, with maize flour, bitter and sweet manioc or cassava- bread, and fish-paste or ..."

4. In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties by Annie Brassey (1885)
"We passed close to the grove of moriche palms referred to in Kingsley's ' At Last,' but had not time for a nearer inspection. ..."

5. Wanderings in South America, the North-west of the United States, and the by Charles Waterton (1879)
"Of this splendid palm, Kingsley writes as follows in At Last: — "The noble moriche palm delights in wet, at least in Trinidad and on the lower Orinoco; ..."

6. Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during by Alexander von Humboldt (1885)
"The moriche grows best in moist places; and it may rather be said that the water attracts the tree. The natives of the Orinoco, by analogous reasoning, ..."

7. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"From the pith of the moriche- palm they obtain a kind of sago-meal, and this, with maize flour, bitter and sweet manioc or cassava- bread, and fish-paste or ..."

8. In the Trades, the Tropics, & the Roaring Forties by Annie Brassey (1885)
"We passed close to the grove of moriche palms referred to in Kingsley's ' At Last,' but had not time for a nearer inspection. ..."

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