ouricuri

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1. A species of palm tree, Syagrus coronata, endemic to eastern Brazil.

   The Brazilian export prohibition on ouricuri oil has been relaxed to permit its exportation from the State of Bahia […].

   1947, Foreign Commerce Weekly, volume 28, page 16

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   Here and there he comes across knots of soldiers with their blouses unbuttoned, but he does not spy a single townsman as he makes his way to the main square, with towering ouricuri palms that are always swarming with birds.

   1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 447

   Principiou descrevendo circumstanciadamente o largo do Remédios; com a sua ermida toda branca, seus bancos ao redor, muitos aryrys, muita bandeira, muito foguete, muito toque de sino

   1990, chapter IV, in Murray Graeme MacNicoll, transl., Mulatto, translation of O Mulato by Aluísio Azevedo, page 94

   Synonyms: ouricury palm