| NOUN | plant | Orbignya, genus Orbignya | palms of southern Mexico to northern South America |
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| Meaning | palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm. | |
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| Synonym | genus Orbignya | |
| Member of | Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves |
| Members | babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, Orbignya martiana | tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory |
| cohune palm, Orbignya cohune, cohune | Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory | |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Spanish | genus orbignya, orbignya | |
| Catalan | genus orbignya, orbignya | |
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