tucuma
See also: tucumã
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tucumã, from Old Tupi tukuma.
Noun
edittucuma (plural tucumas)
- A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum tucuma) with edible fruit.
Translations
editFurther reading
edit- Astrocaryum aculeatum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tucuma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)