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vegetable ivory

vegetable ivory

noun

  1. the hard whitish material obtained from the endosperm of the ivory nut: used to make buttons, ornaments, etc
  2. another name for the ivory nut
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of vegetable ivory1

First recorded in 1835–45

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