[Tupi tucumá, the native name.] A Brazilian palm, Astrocaryum Tucuma, which produces a fleshy fruit used by the natives as food, and a fiber like that of tucum. Also tūcuma palm.
1824. trans. Spix & Martius’ Trav. Brazil, II. 248, note. The tucuma palm and others of the same genus.
1853. Wallace, Palm Trees Amazon, 107–8.
1901. Nery, Amazon, 363. The men wore rings of tucuma, Astrocaryum tucuma.
