Crossword-Solution: PHYTELEPHAS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phytelephas | n. | A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory. |
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| IVORY nut palm | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or
grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous
silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular
variety.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PHYTELEPHAS (4)
When this bear cannot obtain his customary vegetable food, consisting chiefly of the fruits of a pandanea (_Phytelephas_), he watches for the deer and wild boars, or attacks the oxen employed to turn the machinery in the sugar-mills: he has even been known to assail solitary travellers.
Another palm of much economic importance in Colombia is the "tagua" (_Phytelephas macrocarpa_), which grows abundantly in the valleys of the Magdalena, Atrato and Patia, and produces a large melon-shaped fruit in which are found the extremely hard, fine-grained nuts or seeds known in the commercial world as vegetable ivory.
Besides rubber, the forests produce a great variety of cabinet and construction woods, ivory-nuts (from the "tagua" palm, _Phytelephas macrocarpa_), "toquilla" fibre (_Carludovica palmata_) for the manufacture of so-called Panama hats, cabbage palms, several species of cinchona, vanilla and dyewoods.
But the one best known to commerce under the name of ivory nut is the fruit of _Phytelephas macrocarpa_, native of New Granada and other parts of Central America.