Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A South American evergreen tree (Caryocar nuciferum) having opposite, trifoliolate leaves and drupes with nutlike stones containing seeds used as food and as a source of cooking oil.
- noun The nut of this tree.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree (
Caryocar nuciferum ) of the same natural order with the tea plant; -- also calledbutternut .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large nutlike seed of a South American tree
- noun large South American evergreen tree trifoliate leaves and drupes with nutlike seeds used as food and a source of cooking oil
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French saouari, from Galibi sawarra.]
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