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Ivory Nut

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Noun

1. apple nut, ivory nut, vegetable ivory

nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ivory Nut

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noun
1. 
the seed of the ivory palm, which contains an ivory-like substance used to make buttons, etc
2. 
any similar seed from other palms

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Ivory Nut

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vegetable ivory (sense 1)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ivory Nut

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n.
The seed of any of various tropical American palms of the genus Phytelephas, having a hard white endosperm that is the source of vegetable ivory, used for carving and manufacturing buttons. Also called tagua nut.

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