Orbignya


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Related to Orbignya: babassu palm, Attalea speciosa, Babaçu
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Noun1.Orbignya - palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm
liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, family Palmaceae, family Palmae, palm family, Palmaceae, Palmae - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales
babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa - tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
cohune, cohune palm, Orbignya cohune - tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
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INCI: Orbignya speciosa kernel oil (and) hydrogenated soybean oil (and) cocos nucifera (coconut) oil (and) linum usitatissimum (linseed) seed oil
Inactive ingredients include water, snail secretion filtrate, phenyl trimethicone, dimethicone, butylene glycol, butylene glycol dicaprylate/dicaprate, orbignya oleifera seed oil, butyloctyl salicylate, cetyl peg/ppg-10/1 dimethicone, cyclopentasiloxane, cyclohexasiloxane and magnesium sulfate.
(2005) atraves de imagens de satelite classificaram tres regioes fitogeograficas distintas na FLONA Tapajos, a saber: porcao norte com presenca de babacu bem nitida em campo; porcao central com pouca dissimilaridade de especies entre o alto e baixo plato; e a porcao sul rica em palmeiras, exceto babacu (Orbignya phalerata Mart.).
Effects of a nanocomposite containing Orbignya speciosa lipophilic extract on benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Con respecto a la vegetacion, las partes bajas del gradiente estan cubiertas principalmente por selvas tropicales (selva mediana subcaducifolia y selva mediana subperennifolia), donde las especies arboreas predominantes son Brosimum alicastrum, Bursera simaruba y Orbignya guacuyule (Bravo, Gomez, & Marquez, 2013).
Five concentrates were formulated: i) without additional fat (WF; 27.9 g/kg of ether extract [EE] in the total diet); ii) with PO derived from the palmaceae plant Orbignya oleifera, which has a lipid profile rich in lauric and myristic (medium-chain fatty acids); iii) with LO; iv) with whole soybeans (WS)--whole and unground; and v) PF (Lactoplus; Dalquim group, Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil).