BABASSU NUT

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Meaning:

Hard-shelled nut of the babassu palm

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("babassu nut" is a kind of...):

seed (a small hard fruit)

Meronyms (substance of "babassu nut"):

babacu oil; babassu oil (fatty oil from kernels of babassu nuts similar to coconut oil)

Holonyms ("babassu nut" is a part of...):

babassu; babassu palm; coco de macao; Orbignya martiana; Orbignya phalerata; Orbignya spesiosa (tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory)

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