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单词 tagua-nut
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tagua-nut
The ivory-palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, which produces the ivory-nut or corozo-nut; also in combinations, as tagua-nut, tagua-palm, tagua-plant.
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Negro's head1670
corozo1758
tagua1830
vegetable ivory1842
ivory palm1844
ivory-plant1866
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > [noun] > ivory palm
Negro's head1670
corozo1758
tagua1830
ivory palm1844
ivory-plant1866
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 285 Buttons are turned from the hard albumen of Phytelephas, or the Tagua plant.
a1864 S. F. Baird in Webster Taqua-nut [hence in mod. Dicts.]
1883 W. Jago in Knowledge July 52/1 Cellulose..occurs in an approximately pure state in the ‘tagua-nut’.
1901 A. H. Keane Central & S. Amer. I. 132 The tagua, whose melon-shaped pods contain the hard grains known as Vegetable Ivory.
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