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vegetable ivory tree

vegetable ivory tree noun: a tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory; the tagua palm.

Noun

vegetable ivory tree (plural vegetable ivory trees)

  1. A tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory; the tagua palm.
    • The vegetation had again changed, and only the vegetable ivory tree remained, with a great profusion of wonderful orchids, among which I learned to recognize the rare Nuttonia Vexillaria and the glorious pink and scarlet blossoms of Cattleya and odontoglossum.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of vegetable ivory tree

pluralvegetable ivory trees

Questions about vegetable ivory tree

What does vegetable ivory tree mean?
Vegetable ivory tree means a tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory; the tagua palm.
What part of speech is vegetable ivory tree?
Vegetable ivory tree is a noun.
What is the plural of vegetable ivory tree?
The plural of vegetable ivory tree is vegetable ivory trees.

Words near vegetable ivory tree in the dictionary

  1. vegetable garden
  2. vegetable gardens
  3. vegetable hummingbird
  4. vegetable hummingbirds
  5. vegetable ivory
  6. vegetable ivory tree
  7. vegetable ivory trees
  8. vegetable jelly
  9. vegetable juice
  10. vegetable juices
  11. vegetable kingdom

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