NOUN | plant | Orbignya cohune, cohune palm, cohune | tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory |
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Meaning | Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory. | |
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Synonyms | cohune palm, cohune | |
Member of | Orbignya, genus Orbignya | palms of southern Mexico to northern South America |
Parts | cohune nut | nut of the cohune palm having hard white shells like those of ivory nuts |
Broader | feather palm | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves |
Spanish | cohune | |
Catalan | cohune |
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