(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:34:03

I"ta palm` (?). Bot.

A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.

 

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