babassu palm

Questions about babassu palm

What does babassu palm mean?

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

What is another word for babassu palm?

Close synonyms include babassu, coco de macao, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, Orbignya martiana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is babassu palm a common word?

babassu palm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.