babassu

IPA: bˈʌbʌsˈu

A tall Brazilian feather palm, Attalea speciosa, having hard-shelled nuts that yield an edible oil.

Examples of "babassu" in Sentences

Thanks for the rewrite of the babassu oil article.
The most important of them, from an economic point of view, is the babassu.
People and the Palm Forest: Biology and utilization of babassu palms in Maranhão, Brazil.
Other airlines have already tested algae and oil from the jatropha plant and the babassu nut.
I've never seen a babassu nut, but it's amazing that it helped power an airplane the size of a 747.
Mrs. Lopes rallied the women to stand in the path of a bulldozer bearing down on their babassu palm forest.
The plane's one engine flew successfully using fuel derived from a mixture of Brazilian babassu nuts and coconuts.
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.
On Sunday, Virgin Airlines flew a jumbo jet from London to Amsterdam powered in part by coconuts ( "a biofuel mixture of coconut and babassu oil" to be more precise).
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.