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Definition of Ivory palm
1. Noun. A stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts.
Generic synonyms: Feather Palm
Group relationships: Genus Phytelephas, Phytelephas
Terms within: Apple Nut, Ivory Nut, Vegetable Ivory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ivory Palm
Literary usage of Ivory palm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Agriculture: The Climate, Soils, Cultural Methods, Crops, Live by Earley Vernon Wilcox (1916)
"The use of the nuts of the tagua, or vegetable ivory palm, ... The vegetable
ivory palm begins bearing at 6 years of age and continues to bear merchantable ..."
2. The palm tree by Sophy Moody (1864)
"... given to the world their respective personal observations, and the ivory palm
has for some years excited much interest. The name Phytelephas, given by ..."
3. The Journal of the Polynesian Society by Polynesian Society (N.Z.) (1897)
"The Ponape name for the ivory-palm, a near relation of the sago- palm, is
och (Polynesian hoto, foto), from the numerous prickles (och) that ..."
4. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1918)
"Celluloid and vegetable ivory (sec ivory palm) are also used as ... See ivory palm.
IVORY COAST, a colony of French West Africa on the north coast of the ..."
5. The Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1853)
"Here (in these Gardens) it is true the public are privileged to see growing Plants
of 1. the Cocoa-nut; 2. the Vegetable Ivory-Palm; 3. the Wax-bearing ..."
6. The Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands by Frederick William Christian (1899)
"They call it Man-tau-och or Animal go up ivory-palm tree, also Man-kalanga or
the climbing animal. Connected with this creature they have an old ..."
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