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n. - Purplish tropical fruit; Common tropical American shrub or small tree with purplish fruit.

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  • Oris was stretched out in the shade of a mombin batard tree, resting on one elbow and gnawing on a stick of sugarcane.
  • Secondary forests primarily host babaçu mixed with some Spondias mombin, another palm, Astrocaryum vulgare, and the pioneer tree Cecropia concolor.
  • Today, the most common vegetation is represented by Crescentia cujete, Guazuma ulmifolia, Cassia fistula, Bursera graveolens, Spondias mombin, Bauhinia picta, Ceiba...
  • Now before entering the water, they gathered all around the periphery of the basin where the herbalists had set up their dusty stations, displaying sooty boxes, hunks of root,...
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