The roots closely resemble straight rods, but they are studded with stout thorns, whilst the trunk of the Pashiuba is perfectly smooth.
One kind of palm, the Pashiuba (Iriartea Exorhiza), which grows here in greater abundance than elsewhere, is especially attractive.
This tall Pashiuba before us, however, is supported on several scores of roots, in various stages of development, some descending through the air, some already fixed in the soil.
A phenomenon analogous to that which we have just observed is presented by yonder Pashiuba Palm (Iriartea exorhiza).
But the most singular characteristic of the pashiubawas its roots.
At its top, there was a sheathing column swollen larger than the stem, and not unlike the sheathing column of the catinga already mentioned, except that that of the pashiuba was of a deep green colour.
Now the roots of the pashiuba stood up to the height of ten or a dozen feet!
When the Amazonian Indian wishes to manufacture for himself a pucuna he goes out into the forest and searches for two tall, straight stems of the "pashiuba miri" palm (Iriartea setigera).
Sometime a cheaper grater is obtained by using the aerial root of the pashiuba palm (Iriartea exhorhiza), which, being thickly covered over with hard spinous protuberances, serves admirably for the purpose.
In one corner is a heavy harpoon for cow-fish; it is of the black wood of the Pashiuba barriguda.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pashiuba" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
