Meaning

noun tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

originEtymology tree Proto-Tupian *kˀɨp Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨβ Proto-Tupian *ʔa Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔa Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ɨˀβa Old Tupi 'ybá Proto-Tupian *-at͡ʃu Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-wat͡ʃu Old Tupi -gûasu Old Tupi 'ybagûasu Nheengatu babasúbor. Portuguese babaçubor. English babassu Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese babaçu (formerly spelled babassu).

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