moriche

There are also groves of the useful moriche palm Mauritia flexuosa, shrubby scrub savanna, and intermittent species-rich gallery forests (Dezzeo 1994; Bonaccorso, 2001).

Canaima National Park, Venezuela 2009

There are some areas in the savanna where the moriche palm (Mauritia flexosa) forms monotypic stands known as morichal.

Orinoco wetlands 2008

And if he wishes to spend the night I can let him use one of my Venezuelan hammocks I have both chinchorro and hamaca, his choice while I discuss the very different merits of the Margariteño, Tintorero, pavilo, and moriche which I have all used and worn out through life 6 so far.

07/10/2005 - 07/17/2005 2005

And if he wishes to spend the night I can let him use one of my Venezuelan hammocks I have both chinchorro and hamaca, his choice while I discuss the very different merits of the Margariteño, Tintorero, pavilo, and moriche which I have all used and worn out through life 6 so far.

Mision Cultura, the bolivarian cultural revolution 2005

When Tim and I returned to Villavicencio, passing through the same endless savannahs with their herds of zebu cattle and scattered islands of moriche palms, we learned that a landslide had wiped out the Bogotá road two days after we had come down.

One River Wade Davis 1996

When Tim and I returned to Villavicencio, passing through the same endless savannahs with their herds of zebu cattle and scattered islands of moriche palms, we learned that a landslide had wiped out the Bogotá road two days after we had come down.

One River Wade Davis 1996

The vampires had returned to their chosen roost, the martins still swept through the corridors, and as I went down the hill, a moriche oriole sent a silver shaft of song after me from the sentinel palm, just as he had greeted me four years ago.

Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

Ottomacs, is acquainted with the use of mosquito-curtains (mosquiteros) woven from the fibres of the moriche palm-tree.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It is entirely destitute of the corypha and moriche palm-trees.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

This rapid growth is so much the more remarkable, as other palm-trees, for instance, the moriche, * and the palm of Sombrero, * the longevity of which is very great, frequently do not attain a greater height than fourteen or eighteen feet in the space of sixty years.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851