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the bag-like spathe enclosing the inflorescence of a South American palm, Manicaria saccifera, formerly worn as a cap in the Lower Amazon region.
A name for the immense entire leaf of the bussu-palm (Manicaria saccifera), often thirty feet in length and four or five in breadth, used in the…