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n. - Any of several tropical American palms bearing nuts.

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  • During the last few years, in which a great variety of colours has been introduced, both for ladies 'and gentlemen's garments, and buttons have been required to match, it is...
  • Palm-trees are rare; we saw only a few scattered trunks of the thorny piritu and corozo.
  • Raoul, who was a tireless spirit, kindled a fire, and commenced knocking down the nuts of the corozo palm, that hung in clusters over our heads.
  • Polypodium crassifolium, and of the Acrostichum huascaro, are mixed with those of the calahuala or Aspidium coriaceum.) and the palm-trees, irasse, macanilla, corozo,...
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