Definition of Phytelephas macrocarpa

1. Noun. A stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts.

Exact synonyms: Ivory Palm, Ivory Plant, Ivory-nut Palm
Generic synonyms: Feather Palm
Group relationships: Genus Phytelephas, Phytelephas
Terms within: Apple Nut, Ivory Nut, Vegetable Ivory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytelephas Macrocarpa

Physalis pruinosa
Physalis pubescens
Physalis viscosa
Physaloptera
Physaria
Physarum
Physeter catodon
Physeteridae
Physicians Data Query
Physick
Physidae
Physopsis
Physostegia virginiana
Physostigma venenosum
Phytelephas macrocarpa
Phytoflagellata
Phytolacca acinosa
Phytolacca americana
Phytolacca dioica
Phytolaccaceae
Phytomastigina
Phytomastigophorasida
Phytophthora citrophthora
Phytophthora infestans
Phœbus
Phœnicopteridæ
Phæton
Piacenza
Piaf

Literary usage of Phytelephas macrocarpa

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. Report of the Annual Meeting (1846)
"... the albumen or perisperm consisted of embryos aborted in their earliest stages of development. On the phytelephas macrocarpa (Vegetable Ivory or Tagua ..."

4. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1845)
"Two species are known, the phytelephas macrocarpa, or large-fruited, and microcarpa, or small- fruited. The part of the kernel which is thus similar to ..."

5. Technology of Cellulose Esters: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on the by Edward Chauncey Worden (1921)
"phytelephas macrocarpa, 1862. phytelephas macrocarpa, nitrating, 1876. Piano keys, celluloid, 2730. ..."

6. The Visitor, Or, Monthly Instructor by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1845)
"The Spanish botanists Ruiz and Pavón also met with it in the groves of Peru, in the hotter part of the Andes, and named it phytelephas macrocarpa ; the ..."

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