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tucuma

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See also: tucumã

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tucumã, from Old Tupi tukuma.

Noun

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tucuma (plural tucumas)

  1. A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum tucuma) with edible fruit.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)