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tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.