bussu

English

Noun

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.

Remontado Agta

Etymology

Compare Kapampangan bunsu and Tagalog bunso.

Noun

bussú

1. younger sibling