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What (who) is ivory nut - definition

GENUS OF PLANTS
Tagua; Ivory nut palm; Tagua palm; Ivory nut; Tagua nut; Palandra; Elephantusia; Yarina; Ivory palm; Ivory-nut palm; Palma de marfil; Jarina
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ivory nut         
¦ noun the seed of a tropical American palm (Phytelephas macrocarpa), which, when hardened, is a source of vegetable ivory.
Phytelephas         
·noun A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.
Phytelephas         
Phytelephas is a genus containing six known species of dioecious palms (family Arecaceae), occurring from southern Panama along the Andes to Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, northwestern Brazil, and Peru.Govaerts, R.

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Phytelephas

Phytelephas is a genus containing six known species of dioecious palms (family Arecaceae), occurring from southern Panama along the Andes to Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, northwestern Brazil, and Peru. They are commonly known as ivory palms, ivory-nut palms or tagua palms; the scientific name Phytelephas means "plant ivory". This and the first two of the common names refer to the very hard white endosperm of their seeds (tagua nuts or jarina seeds), which resembles elephant ivory.

They are medium-sized to tall palms reaching up to 20 m tall, with pinnate leaves. The "nut" is covered with pericarp, which gets removed by animals. The kernel is covered with a brown, flaky skin and shaped like a small avocado, roughly 4–8 cm in diameter.