Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A palm which bears oil-producing nuts, as the Attalea Cohune, etc.
- noun Same as
ivory-nut .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The name in Central America for the seed of a true palm; also, a commercial name for the true ivory nut. See
ivory nut .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts
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Spanish America palm-trees with leaves the most different in kind and species are called Corozo: the Corozo del Sinu, with a short, thick, glossy trunk, is the Elaeis melanococca of Martius, Palm. page 64 tab.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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[* Rhizophora mangle.] [* In Spanish America palm-trees with leaves the most different in kind and species are called Corozo: the Corozo del Sinu, with
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The establishment of discipline, and forms at the work centers, awareness of production, introducing technology to increase production as in the Australian system (? used in Corozo).
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The thick layer of oil that swims in the water is purified by boiling, and yields the butter of Corozo
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Corozo del Sinu* pressed against each other, which formed heretofore our species Alfonsia, yielding oil in abundance; the Cocos butyracea, called here palma dolce or palma real, and very different from the palma real of the island of Cuba; the palma amarga, with fan-leaves that serve to cover the roofs of houses, and the latta, * resembling the small piritu palm-tree of the Orinoco.
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The thick layer of oil that swims in the water is purified by boiling, and yields the butter of Corozo (manteca de Corozo) which is thicker than the oil of the cocoa-tree, and serves to light churches and houses.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The Corozo of Caripe is slender, small and covered with thorns; it approaches the Cocos aculeata of Jacquin.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The sweater features a classic fit Corozo button rib shawl collar.
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(manteca de Corozo) which is thicker than the oil of the cocoa-tree, and serves to light churches and houses.
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