jacitaran.

1853 A. R. Wallace Palm Trees of Amazon 74 The ‘jacitara’ never loses its hold, and it is only by deliberately extracting its fangs that the intruder can expect to depart unhurt.

1860 M. Reid Odd People 52 The grated pulp [of manioc]..is afterwards put into a long elastic cylinder-shaped basket or net, of the bark of the ‘jacitara’ palm.

1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. ii. 48 There is even a climbing genus of palms (Desmoncus), the species of which are called, in the Tupí language, Jacitára.

1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. vii. 322 When the rolls [of tobacco] are sufficiently well pressed they are bound round with narrow thongs of remarkable toughness, cut from the bark of the climbing Jacitára palm tree.

1878 Chambers's Encycl. X. Suppl. 579/1 Jacitara palm, (Desmoncus macroacanthus), a palm found in the forests of the low lands of the Amazon district in South America.

1927 R. R. Gates Botanist in Amazon Valley vii. 167 Among climbers collected here was a small climbing palm called jacitara (Desmoncus sp.). The slender stem bears sharp spines in pairs, projecting backwards.

1931 B. Miall tr. C. Guenther Naturalist in Brazil v. 92 In Brazil there is another climbing palm, the Jacytára. I found it in Pernambuco, and was quite intimidated by its armament, which has earned it the name of ‘the terrible’.