tagua

Words nearby tagua

Example sentences from the Web for tagua

• What our hunters saw was neither more nor less than a grove of Tagua trees—better known as the “vegetable ivory.”

  Bruin|Mayne Reid

• Of this our hunters had proof, and very shortly after entering among the tagua trees.

  Bruin|Mayne Reid

• A curious article of exportation is the ivory nut, or tagua, which in value now comes next after bananas.

  The Panama Canal|J. Saxon Mills