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groo-groo, gru-gru|ˈgruːgruː|
Also 8 groe-groe, 9 gri-gri, grou-grou.
[? Native name.]
1. In the West Indies and South America, a name for two species of palm, Astrocaryum aculeatum and Acrocomia sclerocarpa.
1796,1852[see sense 2]. 1871Kingsley At Last (1892) vii. 138 This [Desmoncus] furnishes the gri-gri-canes. 1885A. Brassey The Trades 128 The Groo-Groo palms (Acrocomia) we also saw for the first time on this occasion. 1892M. North Recoll. Happy Life I. 92 The principal palms on the hills were..‘Mackaw⁓foot’ and the ‘Grou-grou’.
2. Usually groo-groo worm: The grub of the coleopterous insect Calandra palmarum.
1796Stedman Surinam II. xvi. 22 Another negro also brought me a regale of groe-groe, or cabbage-tree worms, as they are called in Surinam. 1826H. N. Coleridge West Indies 215 note, I have some doubts also of the admissibility of the Groo-groo worms. 1852Zoologist X. 3662 The groogroo worm—so called because it is found in a species of palm vulgarly called the groogroo. 1883E. F. Im Thurn Among Indians Guiana 266 Gru-gru worm. |