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English
Noun
bussu (plural bussus)
- 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
- younger sibling