10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHIQUICHIQUI»
Discover the use of
chiquichiqui in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
chiquichiqui and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Sustainable Harvest and Marketing of Rain Forest Products
The chiquichiqui palm grows wild in poor and sandy soils, mainly associated with
black water rivers, where it forms almost exclusively single-species palm groves
of several hectares in area. It is from these palm groves that the fiber is collected
...
Mark Plotkin, Lisa Famolare, 1992
2
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of ...
We lilad scarcely time to examine in the convent (convento) the great stores of
mani resin, and cordage of the chiquichiqui palm, which deserves to be more
known in Europe. This cordage is extremel light; it floats upon the water, and is
more ...
Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross, 1889
3
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of ...
We had scarcely time to examine in the convent (con- vento) the great stores of
mani resin, and cordage of the chiquichiqui palm, which deserves to be more
known in Europe. This cordage is extremely light; it floats upon the water, and is ...
Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, Thomasina Ross, 1852
4
Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of ...
We had scarcely time to examine in the convent (con- vento) the great stores of
mani resin, and cordage of the chiquichiqui palm, which deserves to be more
known in Europe. This cordage is extremely light; it floats upon the water, and is ...
Friedrich Wilhelm H. Alexander Humboldt (freiherr von.), 1885
5
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of ...
... on their own account small cargoes of cacao, tobacco, and chiquichiqui -f- from
the Rio Negro to Angostura, they always add some cakes of chica, as being
articles of merchandize in great request. Some persons of European race employ
.
Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland, 1819
6
Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of ...
We had scarcely time to examine in the convent (con- vento) the great stores of
mani resin, and cordage of the chiquichiqui palm, which deserves to be more
known in Europe. This cordage is extremely light; it floats upon the water, and is ...
Alexander von HUMBOLDT, 1869
7
Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge ...
Palmaceob. COIR or cocoa-nut fibre, from husk of cocoa- nut. Fibre of cocoa-nut
stem. Gomuto or Ejoo fibre, from leaf-stalks of Gomuto Palm (Arenga sacthari-
fera). Piassaba, from Attalea funifera and Leopoldinia Pias- saba (the
Chiquichiqui ...
8
Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal ...
CHIQUICHIQUI PALM (Leopoldinia Piassaba), the PIASSABA of the north of
Brazil, and one of the palms which yield the Piassaba (q. v.) fibre, now so much
used for making brushes. The Piassaba fibre exported from Para is all obtained
from ...
9
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Botany
Fruit (not ripe), 21 lines long, 18 lines broad, 15 lines thick. LEOPOLDINIA
Pmssana, Wallace, Pahn Trees ofthe Amazon, p. 17. Piayaba Brasiliensium.
Chiquichiqui* Orinocensium. Hub. Per tractus sylvarum Amazoniensium a fluvio
Padauiri ...
10
Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses
Chiquichiqui, Barre. [An Indian language spoken on the Upper Rio Negro in
Venezuela.] This tree, the "Piassaba" of Brazil and the "Chiquichiqui" of
Venezuela, I have little hesitation in referring to the genus Leopoldinia, though I
have never ...
Alfred Russel Wallace, 1853
