orbignya martiana

Questions about orbignya martiana

What does orbignya martiana mean?

orbignya martiana 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 orbignya martiana?

Close synonyms include babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa. 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 orbignya martiana a common word?

orbignya martiana 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.