inajá

plural inajás

1. The South American palm tree Attalea maripa (syn. Maximiliana maripa, formerly also Maximiliana regia).

   The great woody spathes of the Inajá Palm are used by hunters as cooking vessels for their meat; when filled with water they stand fire.

   1864, Sophy Moody, The Palm Tree, page 286

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   The peak on the left has a broader top, and bears a good deal of forest, among which I thought I could distinguish two palms, probably Inajás, for my Indians found an Inajá palm growing at the highest point they attained, and [...]

   1908, Richard Spruce, Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes: […] , page 362

   Because the palm is so useful, the [natives] of the Fresco River, a tributary of the Xingu, set fires to encourage groves of inajá (Hecht 2003). Fig. 13.2 Inajá palms in a pasture invaded by weeds.

   2014, Nigel Smith, Palms and People in the Amazon, Springer, →ISBN, page 93