bussu

plural bussus

1. The palm tree Manicaria saccifera.

   The Bussú, like the Hemp Palm, and the Coco-nut Palm, affords an excellent, durable, ready made cloth.

   1864, Sophy Moody, The Palm Tree, →OCLC, page 291

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   For here the palms hold court; nowhere else on the broad earth is their glory unveiled as we see it: soft, plumy Jupatis dropping over the water, and fairy-light assaiso and bussús with their light-green vase-like forms, and great noble fan-leaved miritis looking down from their eighty-feet high columns, and others that we hardly notice at first, though they are nobles in their race.

   1879, “The Mediterranean of America”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 18, page 193