Meantime fires are made with the nuts of several species of palms -- the inaja and others. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Bates describes a tame cutea, or an agouti, which he found feeding in the neighbourhood of a village, nibbling the fallen fruits of the inaja-palm. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
The inaja-palm, of various species, produces pellucid pods, from one to two feet in length, containing a row of beans -- enveloped in white cottony pulp -- grateful to the taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Rounding a point, we observed a hut beneath a grove of inaja palms; their leaves springing almost from the ground, and spreading slightly out from the slender stem, so as to form an open vase of the most graceful shape. From Wordnik.com. [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference
Sometimes the crown is more open, as in the inaja -- Maximiliana regia -- in which the stem is not very high, and the leaves grow in cycles of five, separating slightly, so as to form an open vase rising from a slender stem. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
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