BABASSU

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does babassu mean? 

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

1. tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BABASSU (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

babassu; babassu palm; coco de macao; Orbignya martiana; Orbignya phalerata; Orbignya spesiosa

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

feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "babassu"):

babassu nut (hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm)

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

genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)

 Context examples 

Babassu oil is used in food, cleaners, and skin products.

(Babassu Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

The oil extracted from the seeds of the babassu palm.

(Babassu Oil, NCI Thesaurus)