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Definition of Phytelephas macrocarpa
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 Phytelephas Macrocarpa
Literary usage of Phytelephas macrocarpa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"On some Uses to which the Nuts of the Vegetable Ivory Palm (phytelephas macrocarpa)
is applied. By GEORGE BENNETT, MJ)., FLS S(C., of Sydney, ..."
2. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"45 and 46-47 (a folio plate) are devoted to admirable illustrations of the "Vegetable
Ivory," phytelephas macrocarpa. The remaining three plates are devoted ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1846)
"... the albumen or perisperm consisted of embryos aborted in their earliest stages
of development. On the phytelephas macrocarpa (Vegetable Ivory or Tagua ..."
4. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1845)
"Two species are known, the phytelephas macrocarpa, or large-fruited, and microcarpa,
or small- fruited. The part of the kernel which is thus similar to ..."
5. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"phytelephas macrocarpa, 1862. phytelephas macrocarpa, nitrating, 1876. Piano keys,
celluloid, 2730. ..."
6. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"The Spanish botanists Ruiz and Pavón also met with it in the groves of Peru, in
the hotter part of the Andes, and named it phytelephas macrocarpa ; the ..."
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