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• n  tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

• Most Americans have not heard of the babassu nut since September 1936, when Alf Landon attacked this "jungle product" as an example of the riffraff being let into the country.
• But even coconuts and babassu have their problems: the oil yield is just not that high.
• For one thing there was the babassu, bassoba, baguassu, aguassu, uauassu or guaguassu, a palm tree that grows in Brazil.

• babassu palm
• coco de macao
• Orbignya phalerata
• Orbignya spesiosa
• Orbignya martiana

Quotes

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• Richard Branson in GulfNews
  There were several reasons why Virgin chose babassu nuts and coconut oil over other energy sources,Branson said.