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   ivory black
         n 1: a black pigment made from grinding burnt ivory in oil

English Dictionary: ivory palm by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ivory 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]:
ivory plant
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]:
ivory-billed woodpecker
n
  1. large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct
    Synonym(s): ivorybill, ivory-billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ivorybill
n
  1. large black-and-white woodpecker of southern United States and Cuba having an ivory bill; nearly extinct
    Synonym(s): ivorybill, ivory-billed woodpecker, Campephilus principalis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Indris \In"dris\, Indri \In"dri\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      Any lemurine animal of the genus {Indris}.
  
      Note: Several species are known, all of them natives of
               Madagascar, as the diadem indris ({I. diadema}), which
               has a white ruff around the forehead; the woolly indris
               ({I. laniger}); and the short-tailed or black indris
               ({I. brevicaudatus}), which is black, varied with gray.

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).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Black \Black\, n.
      1. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest
            color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth
            has a good black.
  
                     Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and
                     the suit of night.                              --Shak.
  
      2. A black pigment or dye.
  
      3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or
            shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain
            African races.
  
      4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.)
            Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
  
                     Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the
                     like show death terrible.                  --Bacon.
  
                     That was the full time they used to wear blacks for
                     the death of their fathers.               --Sir T.
                                                                              North.
  
      5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest
            by being black.
  
                     The black or sight of the eye.            --Sir K.
                                                                              Digby.
  
      6. A stain; a spot; a smooch.
  
                     Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks
                     of lust.                                             --Rowley.
  
      {Black and white}, writing or print; as, I must have that
            statement in black and white.
  
      {Blue black}, a pigment of a blue black color.
  
      {Ivory black}, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by
            calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief
            ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing.
  
      {Berlin black}. See under {Berlin}.

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).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Porcelain \Por"ce*lain\ (277), n. [F. porcelaine, It.
      porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell
      (Cypr[91]a porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig,
      probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a
      pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on
      account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was
      believed to be made from it. See {Pork}.]
      A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware,
      made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and
      America; -- called also {China}, or {China ware}.
  
               Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. --Dryden.
  
      {Ivory porcelain}, porcelain with a surface like ivory,
            produced by depolishing. See {Depolishing}.
  
      {Porcelain clay}. See under {Clay}.
  
      {Porcelain crab} (Zo[94]l.), any crab of the genus
            {Porcellana} and allied genera (family {Porcellanid[91]}).
            They have a smooth, polished carapace.
  
      {Porcelain jasper}. (Min.) See {Porcelanite}.
  
      {Porcelain printing}, the transferring of an impression of an
            engraving to porcelain.
  
      {Porcelain shell} (Zo[94]l.), a cowry.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ivory-bill \I"vo*ry-bill`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      A large, handsome, North American woodpecker ({Campephilus
      principalis}), having a large, sharp, ivory-colored beak. Its
      general color is glossy black, with white secondaries, and a
      white dorsal stripe. The male has a large, scarlet crest. It
      is now rare, and found only in the Gulf States.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Iberia Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 45)
      Location: 29.79360 N, 91.78493 W
      Population (1990): 68297 (25472 housing units)
      Area: 1489.7 sq km (land), 1180.4 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Iberville, LA
      Zip code(s): 70776

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Iberville Parish, LA (parish, FIPS 47)
      Location: 30.26293 N, 91.34932 W
      Population (1990): 31049 (11352 housing units)
      Area: 1602.4 sq km (land), 88.6 sq km (water)
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