Palmyra Wood, properly the wood of the Palmyra palm (see PALM, p. 723); but the name is generally used for all kinds of palm-tree wood imported into Britain; much of which is the wood of the cocoa-nut palm, Cocos nucifera, and the allied species C. plumosa.
Palmyra Wood
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 728
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