souari

alternative sawarri · alternative saouari

1. no pluralAny tree of the genus Caryocar. They yield strong timber and some bear edible nuts.

   Among a variety of specimens, we collected some fine plants of the Tonquin bean, the Souwarrow nut, the wild orange, and a species of medlar.

   1816, George Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies, page 189

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   Souari nut, or butternut.—This nut, like the last, is a native of British Guiana, and is the fruit of the Caryocar nuciferum, a noble tree, growing a hundred feet high, having large, broad, trifoliate leaves, resembling those of our common horse-chestnut, but not quite as broad.

   1896, Andrew Samuel Fuller, The Nut Culturalist, page 280