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inajá|ɪnəˈdʒɑː|
[Tupi.]
In full inajá palm. A palm tree, Maximiliana martiana (regia), native to the Amazon region.
1849R. Spruce Notes of Botanist on Amazon & Andes (1908) I. i. 45 The pinnate fronds of the..Inajá (Maximiliana regia) reach sometimes 40 feet in length. 1853A. R. Wallace Trav. Amazon ii. 33 Here also grew the Inajá, a fine thick-stemmed species, with a very large dense head of foliage. 1860Mayne Reid Odd People 82 These nuts [sc. palm-nuts] are the fruit of several kinds of palms, but the best are those afforded by two magnificent species,—the ‘Inaja’ (Maximilliana [sic] regia), and the ‘Urucuri’ (Attalea excelsa). 1866Lindley & Moore Treas. Bot. II. 726/1 M[aximiliana] regia, the Inajá Palm of the Amazon, has a trunk a hundred or more feet high. 1927R. R. Gates Botanist in Amazon Valley viii. 174 The Inajá..is one of the common palms of the Amazon. It produces enormous masses of ovoid fruits the size of a lemon. 1966E. J. H. Corner Nat. Hist. Palms xii. 283 As a major feature of vegetation, they [sc. South American palms] call for botanical investigation in every respect. For example, the babaçu.., cohune.., piassava.., and inajá. |