tagua
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of tagua
From Guarani taguá, in reference to the animal's ability to make paths into virtually impenetrable areas
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Complementing the regal black-and-white plumages are hand-carved wooden beads made from driftwood found in the Luangwa’s lush riverbeds, vintage Zambian coins collected in Mfuwe markets, and vegetable ivory seeds sourced from towering tagua palms.
From National Geographic • May 17, 2018
The sliced tagua typically retails for $30 a kg, while the raw seeds sell for $6 a kg.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2017
"In the beginning of 2001, a France-based British lady contacted me if I could supply hand carved tagua figurines," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2017
In her bin were iron jewelry holders and rosewood containers and dozens of rings, each made in faraway places with exotic materials: tagua nut, cow bone, goat horn.
From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2015
A curious article of exportation is the ivory nut, or tagua, which in value now comes next after bananas.
From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by Mills, J. Saxon
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
