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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A feather-leaved Central American palm tree (Attalea cohune syn. Orbignya cohune) having hard-shelled fruits that yield a useful oil.
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- noun tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, perhaps from American Spanish, from Mosquito ókhún.]
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