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   Iberian
         adj 1: of or relating to the Iberian Peninsula or its
                  inhabitants
         n 1: a native or inhabitant of Iberia in the Caucasus
         2: a native or inhabitant of the Iberian Peninsula (especially
            in ancient times)

English Dictionary: ivory nut by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Iberian Peninsula
n
  1. a peninsula in southwestern Europe [syn: {Iberian Peninsula}, Iberia]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ibero-mesornis
n
  1. sparrow-sized fossil bird of the Cretaceous period having a vestigial tail; found in Spain; considered possibly the third most primitive of all birds
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ibrahim
n
  1. the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son; "Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each has a special claim on Abraham"
    Synonym(s): Abraham, Ibrahim
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ivory nut
n
  1. nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons
    Synonym(s): ivory nut, vegetable ivory, apple nut
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ivory-nut palm
n
  1. a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts
    Synonym(s): ivory palm, ivory-nut palm, ivory plant, Phytelephas macrocarpa
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ivy arum
n
  1. evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage
    Synonym(s): golden pothos, pothos, ivy arum, Epipremnum aureum, Scindapsus aureus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Iberian \I*be"ri*an\, a.
      Of or pertaining to Iberia.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
      1. The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance
            constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of
            dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close
            arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure.
            It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or
            utility.
  
      Note: Ivory is the name commercially given not only to the
               substance constituting the tusks of the elephant, but
               also to that of the tusks of the hippopotamus and
               walrus, the hornlike tusk of the narwhal, etc.
  
      2. The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
  
      3. Any carving executed in ivory. --Mollett.
  
      4. pl. Teeth; as, to show one's ivories. [Slang]
  
      {Ivory black}. See under {Black}, n.
  
      {Ivory gull} (Zo[94]l.), a white Arctic gull ({Larus
            eburneus}).
  
      {Ivory nut} (Bot.), the nut of a species of palm, the
            {Phytephas macroarpa}, often as large as a hen's egg. When
            young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness
            into a whitish, close-grained, albuminous substance,
            resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence
            it is called {vegetable ivory}. It is wrought into various
            articles, as buttons, chessmen, etc. The palm is found in
            New Grenada. A smaller kind is the fruit of the {Phytephas
            microarpa}. The nuts are known in commerce as Corosso
            nuts.
  
      {Ivory palm} (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts.
           
  
      {Ivory shell} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Eburna}, a genus of
            marine gastropod shells, having a smooth surface, usually
            white with red or brown spots.
  
      {Vegetable ivory}, the meat of the ivory nut. See {Ivory nut}
            (above).
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