A South American palm tree bearing edible fruit, also called moriche or mauritius palm.
From indigenous Tupi or related Amazonian languages, the word entered Spanish and Portuguese through contact with native peoples who cultivated and harvested this palm.
The aguaji palm feeds entire communities in the Amazon—animals and people both rely on it, and its presence shows how many plants we don't know about in rainforests that are disappearing faster than we can document them.
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