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单词 palm nut
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palm nutn.

Brit. /ˈpɑːm nʌt/, U.S. /ˈpɑ(l)m ˌnət/
Forms: see palm n.1 and nut n.1 and adj.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: palm n.1, nut n.1
Etymology: < palm n.1 + nut n.1
The seed of the drupaceous fruit of a palm or similar tree, containing the kernel; spec. the seed of the oil palm, the part left after the palm oil has been extracted.
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1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 31 There was much Wheat, and Wine of Palme to be found, and Vineger boiled out of Palme nuts.
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xxiii From the ashes of those palm-nuts you could make good salt.
1887 Colonial & Indian Exhib., London 1886: Rep. Colonial Sections xiii. 265 The kernel of the palm nut contains about 50 per cent. of an oil which..is nearly equal to cocoa-nut oil for soap-making, and which leaves a good nutritive oil-cake.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Palm-nuts, the commercial name for the seeds of the West African oil-palm, Elæensis Guineensis, after the pulpy matter which contains the palm-oil has been removed.
1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 10 Dangle a palm-nut from a tree.
1993 World in Your Kitchen (1995) 65/2 Aprapransa is a delicacy of the Akwapim people... It uses palm butter, a pulp made from palm nuts.

Compounds

palm-nut oil n. = palm-kernel oil n. at palm n.1 Compounds 2.
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1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 48/1 The nut [of the oil palm] was formerly rejected as useless after the oil had been obtained from the fruit; but from its kernel a fixed oil is now extracted, called Palm-nut oil.
1977 Martindale's Extra Pharmacopoeia (ed. 27) 1050/1 Palm-kernel Oil (B.P.C. 1949); Oleum Palmae Nuclei; Palm-nut Oil.
1995 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 2 Mar. h1 As a topping you get fried sweet plantains, a sprinkling of toasty gari..and a dribble of meaty-tasting palm-nut oil.
palm-nut tree n. a tree producing palm nuts or similar seeds; (formerly) spec. † the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis (obsolete).
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1777 G. Forster Voy. round World I. 270 The pandang or palm-nut tree had given its long prickly leaves to thatch the roofs of the buildings.
1823 T. Roughley Jamaican Planter's Guide 419 The palm-nut tree..whose luscious nut gives a fine flavoured, thick red oil.
1989 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 27 465 They..also helped farmers to accept the notion of intercropping with high-yielding varieties of palm-nut trees.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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