NOUN
- tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
How To Use babassu In A Sentence
- In the northeastern region of Brazil, near the Amazon, indigenous women harvest nuts from babassu palms.
- Since then, the MIQCB has successfully pushed for passage of several municipal laws that have guaranteed the quebradeiras access to babassu palm trees on both public and privately-owned land.
- I was interested to see that Virgin Atlantic flew a 747 from London's Heathrow Airport to Amsterdam, fueled partly by coconuts and Brazilian babassu nuts. READING AND DANCING BETWEEN THE LINES
- Some 400,000 women and their families living on the eastern edge of the Amazon jungle depend on the babassu palm (Orbignya phalerata) for a livelihood.
- The shampoo cleanses fine hair with organic coconut and babassu oils and contains calendula, honey and marshmallow to give life to limp strands.
- I've never seen a babassu nut, but it's amazing that it helped power an airplane the size of a 747. Archive 2008-03-01
- Then exchange sensual massages with exotic babassu oil from the Amazon - tinged with essential oils of orange, sandalwood and frankincense.
- Virgin Atlantic in 2008 became the first airline to fly with biofuel—in that instance derived from coconut and babassu palm oil that was used in a 20% mix in one of the Boeing 747's four fuel tanks. Virgin Australia Researching Eucalyptus Leaves As Jet Fuel
- The babassu palm, which grows in the Brazilian Amazon, is harvested sustainably to provide a natural oil for use in Aveda hair conditioners and as a cleansing ingredient in shampoos.
- The movement is fighting for the conservation of threatened groves of babassu palm.