miritin.
/ˈmɪrɪti/, U.S. /ˈmɪrᵻdi/ More fully miriti palm. = moriche n.
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Washingtonia1945
1853 W. L. Herndon Explor. Valley of Amazon xvii. 332 This is generally surrounded with cocoa-nut trees and other palms, among which the miriti is conspicuous for its beauty. This is a very tall, straight, umbrella-like tree..that bears large clusters of a small nut, which is eaten.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. ii. iii. 684 Mauritia vinifera, the Muriti Palm, and M. flexuosa, yield toddy.
1869 L. Agassiz Journey in Brazil (ed. 6) v. 161 I sat for a long time on the deck watching an Indian cutting a leaf from a Mirití palm.
1945 Sci. Monthly July 37/2 In the second division (oils and waxes) the variety of plants is considerable. Of those important enough to figure in commercial statistics the following might be cited:..Mirití, Mauritia flexuosa.
1979 Current Anthropol. 20 651/1 The straw, primarily made from muriti and other kinds of palms, is easily found in the savannah.
1995 Conservation Biol. 9 48/2 Ilha Saracá is covered with topographically low floodplain forest, characterized by low tree-species diversity and high dominance of the miriti palm (Mauritia flexuosa).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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