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jacitara palm

jacitara palm noun: a spiny, climbing palm, Desmoncus polyacanthos, native to the southern Caribbean and tropical South America.

Noun

jacitara palm (plural jacitara palms)

  1. A spiny, climbing palm, Desmoncus polyacanthos, native to the southern Caribbean and tropical South America.
    • Climbing plants are monstrous and luxuriant, but others which have never been known to climb elsewhere learn the art as an escape from that somber shadow, so that the common nettle, the jasmine, and even the jacitara palm tree can be seen circling the stems of the cedars and striving to reach their...1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of jacitara palm

pluraljacitara palms

Origin of jacitara palm

From Portuguese jacitara, from the name of the plant in Tupi-Guarani.

Questions about jacitara palm

What does jacitara palm mean?
Jacitara palm means a spiny, climbing palm, Desmoncus polyacanthos, native to the southern Caribbean and tropical South America.
What part of speech is jacitara palm?
Jacitara palm is a noun.
What is the plural of jacitara palm?
The plural of jacitara palm is jacitara palms.

Words near jacitara palm in the dictionary

  1. jacinthe
  2. jacinthes
  3. jacinthine
  4. jacinths
  5. jacitara
  6. jacitara palm
  7. jacitara palms
  8. jacitaras
  9. jack
  10. jack all
  11. Jack and Dannies

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