Macaw-tree,

Macaw-tree, GREAT (Acrocomia sclerocarpa), a palm of the same tribe as the cocoa-nut, a native of the West Indies and of the warm parts of America. It is called Macoya in Guiana and Macahuba in Brazil. It is from 20 to 30 feet high, with pinnated leaves from 10 to 15 feet long. The fruit yields an oil of a yellow colour, of the consistence of butter, with a sweetish taste, and an odour of violets, used in the native regions of the tree as an emollient in painful affections of the joints, and extensively imported into Britain, where it is sometimes sold as Palm Oil, to be used in the manufacture of toilet-soaps.