grugru : Idioms & Phrases

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grugru nut

  • noun nut of Brazilian or West Indian palms
WordNet

grugru palm

  • noun tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts
    Acrocomia aculeata; gri-gri; grugru; macamba.
WordNet
Gru"gru palm"
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. Written also grigri palm.
Webster 1913

grugru worm

Gru"gru worm"
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.
Webster 1913