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Definition of Phytelephas
1. Noun. Small genus of South American feather palms.
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Arecaceae, Family Arecaceae, Family Palmaceae, Family Palmae, Palm Family, Palmaceae, Palmae
Member holonyms: Ivory Palm, Ivory Plant, Ivory-nut Palm, Phytelephas Macrocarpa
Definition of Phytelephas
1. n. A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.
Medical Definition of Phytelephas
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytelephas
Literary usage of Phytelephas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"On some Uses to which the Nuts of the Vegetable Ivory Palm (phytelephas macrocarpa)
is applied. By GEORGE BENNETT, MJ)., FLS S(C., of Sydney, ..."
2. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1854)
"45 and 46-47 (a folio plate) are devoted to admirable illustrations of the "Vegetable
Ivory," phytelephas macrocarpa. The remaining three plates are devoted ..."
3. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Emmanuel Le Maout, Joseph Decaisne, Joseph Dalton Hooker (1876)
"OVARY of 4 1-ovuled cells (phytelephas), or 1-celled and 1-ovuled ... style terminal,
divided into 5-6 stigmatic branches (phytelephas), or basilar, ..."
4. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"These are low-growing-Palms, Nipa belonging to the East Indies, and phytelephas
to tropical America : the hard endosperm of phytelephas is known as ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1846)
"The perisperm of a species of Astrocaryum in British Guiana is stated by Sir
Robert Schom- burgk to be as hard as that of phytelephas. ..."
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