bussu

bussu (plural bussus)

1. The palm tree Manicaria saccifera.
   • 1864, Sophy Moody, The Palm Tree, →OCLC, page 291:

     The Bussú, like the Hemp Palm, and the Coco-nut Palm, affords an excellent, durable, ready made cloth.

   • 1879, “The Mediterranean of America”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 18, page 193:

     For here the palms hold court; nowhere else on the broad earth is their glory unveiled as we see it: soft, plumy Jupatis dropping over the water, and fairy-light assaiso and bussús with their light-green vase-like forms, and great noble fan-leaved miritis looking down from their eighty-feet high columns, and others that we hardly notice at first, though they are nobles in their race.

Compare Kapampangan bunsu and Tagalog bunso.

bussú

1. younger sibling