Crossword-Solution: MIRITI 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Now appears the miriti, or mauritia--one of the most beautiful of its tribe, with pendent clusters of glossy fruit, and enormous spreading fan-like leaves cut into ribbons; the jupati, with plume-like leaves forty feet and upwards in length, graceful in the extreme, starting almost from the ground.

Now we pass through a magnificent forest of the beautiful fan-palm--the miriti--overshadowing many smaller trees and innumerable shrubs, bearing light conspicuous flowers.

Most of them are eatable, and rather pleasant to the taste." Among the most beautiful is the mauritia, or miriti, with pendent clusters of reddish fruit; its enormous, spreading, fan-like leaves cut into ribbons.

But the Indian had not been navigating the Gapo for more than forty years of his life, without learning how to construct a sail; and, if nothing else had turned up, he could have made a tolerable substitute for one out of many kinds of broad, tough leaves,--especially those of the _miriti_ palm.

MIRITI NUT OR ITA PALM NUT.--These are the Indian names of the fruit of a lofty palm tree, the _Mauritia flexuosa_, of the swamps along the Orinoco river, also in wet soils at higher elevations.