Borrowed fromGuyanese Creole Englishawara, fromLokonoawara.[1]
awara (pluralawaraorawaras)
- (Guyana, chiefly attributively) Thepalm treeAstrocaryum vulgare which isnative to theAmazon Rainforestregion.
1841,Robert H[ermann] Schomburgk, “Banded Schizodon.Schizodon fasciatus, Agas.”, inWilliam Jardine, editor,Fishes of Guiana. Part I (The Naturalist’s Library, Ichthyology; III), Edinburgh:W[illiam] H[ome] Lizars, […]; London: S. Highley, […],→OCLC,page253:The food found in its stomach was the seed of theawarra, a species of palm (Aristocaryon spec?)
1857, J. O. Bagdon, “Vegetable Products”, inGuiana: Geographical and Historical. […], Georgetown, Demerara, British Guiana: R. Short,→OCLC,pages16–17:The Ita palm supplies the drink called Belteerie; of the fruit of the Tooroo palm a drink resembling chocolate is made; theAwara palm also yields a drink; the Guava, Souari, and tamarind.
1871 September 1, “International Exhibition. The French Pictures.”, inThe Art-Journal, volume X (New Series; volume XXXIII overall), London:Virtue & Co.,→OCLC,page220, column 1:Handsome bracelets and rings are carved out of the nut of theAwara palm (Astrocaryum Awara); it is black, very hard, and bears a high polish.
1876 June, “France. Cayenne. Report by Consul Wooldridge on the Trade and Commerce of French Guiana for the Year 1875.”, inReports from Her Majesty’s Consuls on the Manufactures, Commerce, &c., of Their Consular Districts. Part IV. […] (Accounts and Papers; 34 (Commercial Reports—continued)), volume LXXV, London:Harrison and Sons, […],→OCLC,page850, column 1:Oil of theawara palm. This palm is very common on the coast of French Guiana; the fruit grows to a fine bunch, and ripens and falls between February and April. It is one of the most useful of trees, for every particle of it is utilized.
1885,The Gardeners’ Magazine, volume XXVIII, London: Gardeners’ Magazine Office,→OCLC, page642:The five principal palms of the British Guiana rivers are the trooly, the aeta, the cocorite, the manicole, and theawarra, and all these grow in the greatest profusion on the banks of the Berbice.
1890 June,[J. J. Quelch], “On the Upper Berbice River”, in J. J. Quelch, editor,Timehri: Being the Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, volume IV (New Series), part I, Demerara: J. Thomson, […]; London:E[dward] Stanford, […],→OCLC,page317:Above Ahwiemah, and upwards until the sandy ridges in the neighbourhood of Youacourie creek are met with, the district is almost a continuous swamp, in which the pricklyawarra palms (Astrocaryum) luxuriate and in some places completely line the riverside.
1976 June 18, E. McLoughlin, P. J. K. Burton, “Notes on the Hawk-headed ParrotDeroptyus accipitrinus”, in J. F. Monk, editor,Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, volume96, number 2, London:British Ornithologists’ Club,→ISSN,→OCLC,page69:An Amerindian informant living in the area stated that it fed on fruits of theAwarra PalmAstrocaryum tucumoides and the Cuyuru PalmA. tucuma.
1991,Richard Price,Sally Price, “Introduction: Collective Fabulation”, inTwo Evenings in Saramaka, Chicago, Ill.; London:University of Chicago Press,→ISBN,page18:At dawn the beautiful wife asked Bási Kodjó to go off to the forest with her to collectawara palm seeds. [...] Bási Kodjó climbed theawara tree and began picking fruit. Suddenly the woman turned back into her natural form, a Bush Cow, and called out to her relatives. [...] Bási Kodjó had turned himself into a tinyawara palm thorn and hidden by sticking himself into a leaf.
2017, Olivier Claessens, Nyls de Pracontal, Johan Ingels, “The Owls of French Guiana”, in Paula L. Enríquez, editor,Neotropical Owls: Diversity and Conservation, Cham, Switzerland:Springer Nature,→DOI,→ISBN,page426:This owl nests mostly in cavities in trees. On 23 June 2006, a nest was discovered at Awala-Yalimapo [...]. The nest cavity was situated on top of a dead beheadedawara palm treeAstrocaryum vulgare. The palm tree with a height of c. 5 m and a diameter of c. 15 cm stood in the middle of a small group of bushes, low trees andawara palms next to the parking of the primary school.
- (Guyana) Theoilyediblefruit of thistree, which has ayellowish-orangeskin andpulp, and a largeblackseed. Both the pulp and the seedyieldoil.
1796,J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter I, inNarrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume I, London:J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […],→OCLC,page22:Theawara, or avoira, which is leſs remarkable for the excellence of its flavour than its beautiful appearance, grows upon a ſpecies of palm-tree, and is of an oval form, about the ſize of an Orlean plumb, and of a rich deep orange colour, nearly approaching to red.
1881, Charles Daniel Dance,Chapters from a Guianese Log-book: Or The Folk-lore and Scenes of Sea-coast and River Life in British Guiana; […], Georgetown, Demarara, British Guiana: Royal Gazette Establishment,→OCLC, page95:With this prepared cutting-pole they succeeded, after a while, in detaching the cluster ofpalms, which fell heavily to the ground, scattering theawarra nuts in all directions. But with the bunch ofawarras came also mother coomby with her brood of seven young ones on her back,—their long prehensile tails firmly entwined around the tail of the old lady.
1963,Edgar Mittelholzer,A Swarthy Boy, London:Putnam,→OCLC, page50:On this plot of land he grow a variety of crops, and periodically a crate—sometimes two crates—would turn up, sent down by Uncle Bishop on the launch from Don Carlos. In it would be no conventional vegetables like sweet-potatoes, cassavas or yams, but really exciting jungle products—a small sackful ofcookerits (the fruit of thecookerit palm, sweet and oily), another sack containingawaras (bright orange and meaty, also from a palm), [...]
1994, Bernard Heydorn,Walk Good Guyana Boy, Newmarket, Ont.: Learning Improvement Centre,→ISBN, page77:Jubbing or taws, was played with marbles orawara seeds. Theawara fruit was a bright, orange coloured fruit which came from a species of palm tree. The flesh of theawara fruit would be stripped off by teeth, and the seed rubbed against concrete. The result would be a smooth, black, shinyawara seed, called a taw.
2011,Odeen Ishmael, “The War of the Birds”, inGuyana Legends: Folktales of the Indigenous Amerindians,[Bloomington, Ind.]:Xlibris,→ISBN,page92:As a punishment, they put him to sit on top of a tallawarra palm. The trunk of the tree was thickly covered with sharp thorns, which prevented him from climbing down. [...] One day, as a group of spiders arrived to eat the ripe yellowawarra on the tree, they were shocked to find Kamoa sitting among the branches.
fruit ofAstrocaryum vulgare
Borrowed fromSanskritवर(vara,“enclosing,circumference”)
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