[a. Brazilian (Tupi) urucurí palm.] The Brazilian palm-tree, Attalea excelsa (also A. funifera); rarely (collect.), the nuts obtained from this.
1863. Bates, Nat. Amazon, I. 342. The broad-leaved Muru-muru and Urucuri, the slender Assai.
1880. C. R. Markham, Peruv. Bark, 457. The milk is subjected to the smoke of the urucuy [sic] or nuts of the Atholea excelsa palm.
attrib. 1863. Bates, Nat. Amazon, II. 168. A quantity of the Urucuri plums.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1063/2. Burning the nuts of the Urucuri palms.
1882. Bentley, Man. Bot. (ed. 4), 705. The Coquilla nuts of commerce … are also termed urucuri nuls.
