ouricuri

ouricuri

English

Alternative forms

• aricuri, licuri, ouricury

Noun

ouricuri (plural ouricuris)

1. A species of palm tree, Syagrus coronata, endemic to eastern Brazil.
   • 1947, Foreign Commerce Weekly, vol. 28, p. 16:

     The Brazilian export prohibition on ouricuri oil has been relaxed to permit its exportation from the State of Bahia […] .

   • 1984, Helen R. Lane, translating Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society 2012, p. 447:

     Here and there he comes across knots of soldiers with their blouses unbuttoned, but he does not spy a single townsman as he makes his way to the main square, with towering ouricuri palms that are always swarming with birds.

   • 1990, Murray Graeme MacNicoll, translating Aluísio Azevedo, Mulatto, p. 94:

     He began by expounding in detail on Remédios Plaza, with its small white chapel, the benches around it, the numerous ouricury palms, the many flags, skyrockets, and ringing of bells.