tucuma

See also: tucumã

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tucumã, from Old Tupi tukuma.

Noun

tucuma (plural tucumas)

1. A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum tucuma) with edible fruit.

Translations

Translations

• Portuguese: tucumã (pt) m (Brazil)

Further reading

• Astrocaryum aculeatum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tucuma”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)