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‖ borassus Bot.|bɒˈræsəs|
[mod.L., ad. Gr. βόρασσος palm-fruit.]
A genus of palms, including two species, of which B. flabelliformis the Palmyra Palm, yields palm-wine and palm-sugar.
1798S. Wilcocke Stavorinus' Voy. in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. (1849) 517 At Ceylon..the leaves of the borassus palm tree..are used instead of paper. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. I. vi. 131 A forest of borassus palms. |