A South American palm tree that produces edible nuts and is valued for its timber and nutritional resources.
From indigenous Quechua or Arawakan languages of South America, where the tree is native. The word entered Spanish and English through contact with indigenous peoples.
The cupay palm supported indigenous communities for centuries, providing food, shelter, and medicine—yet most botanists learned about it from European texts rather than from the knowledge systems of the people who lived with it for generations.
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