moriche West Indian.
(mɒˈrɪtʃeɪ)
[a. Carib moriche, morichi, muriche = Tupi muriti, miriti.]
A South American palm of the genus Mauritia. Also called moriche palm. moriche apple, moriche nut: names for the fruit of this palm.
| 1866 [see ita]. 1871 Kingsley At Last viii, Sixty feet and more aloft, the short smooth columns of the Moriches towered around us. Ibid. xii, The Moriche apples floated down the stream. Ibid. xvii, The ripple lapped the Moriche-nuts about the roots of the Manchineel bush. |