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1. crab, n.3 View full entry 1769
...Corruption of carap, the name of a South American tree, Carapa guianensis, used in compounds: as crab-nutcrab-oilalso carap oilcrab-tree, crab-wood...
2. marudi, n. View full entry 1769
...In Guyana: any of several large, tree-dwelling birds resembling pheasants, having predominantly brown or black plumage; esp. Penelope marail, Penelope jacquacu, and Pipile cumanensis....
3. mucka-mucka, n. View full entry 1769
...A tall aroid plant, Montrichardia arborescens, of Guyana and other parts of tropical America....
4. perai, n. View full entry 1769
...= piranha1....
5. troolie, n. View full entry 1769
...A name for the immense entire leaf of the bussu-palm (Manicaria saccifera), often thirty feet in length and four or five in breadth, used in the lower Amazon region for...
