ORBIGNYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Orbignya mean? 

• ORBIGNYA (noun)
  The noun ORBIGNYA has 1 sense:

1. palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm

  Familiarity information: ORBIGNYA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORBIGNYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Orbignya; Orbignya

Hypernyms ("Orbignya" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Orbignya"):

babassu; babassu palm; coco de macao; Orbignya martiana; Orbignya phalerata; Orbignya spesiosa (tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory)

cohune; cohune palm; Orbignya cohune (tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory)

Holonyms ("Orbignya" is a member of...):

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)