Definition of "corozo" []

• Any of several Central American palms. (noun)
• The nut produced by these trees. (noun)

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• "During the last few years, in which a great variety of colours has been introduced, both for ladies 'and gentlemen's garments, and buttons have been required to match, it is fortunate that a substitute has been found for ivory in the kernel of the "corozo" nut."
• "And there's no wasteful plastic on the $178 cardigan; the buttons are made from corozo nuts."
• "The thorns are not slender and long like those of the corozo and other thorny palm-trees; but on the contrary, very woody, short, and broad at the base, like the thorns of the Hura crepitans."