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巴西巴伊亞的桃椰子樹,在千里達和多巴哥被稱為 peewah(詞義1)。
在千里達和多巴哥,桃棕櫚的果實也被稱為 peewah(詞義2)。

借自特立尼達克里奧爾英語 peewapeewah,源自拉丁美洲西班牙語 pijguao,可能源自克丘亞語 [具體何詞?][1]此英語詞和西班牙語 pifápivá (巴拿馬)pijuayo (秘魯) 同源。

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peewah (複數 peewahs) (特立尼達和多巴哥)

  1. 桃椰子樹(Bactris gasipaes),一種產於南美的棕櫚科植物
    近義詞:pupunha
    • 1910, Department of Agriculture, Legislative Council, Trinidad and Tobago, [Council Paper], Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Government Printer, →OCLC,頁號 16:
      The Pewa or Peach palm (Guilielma speciosa) was introduced from Trinidad, and seedlings raised for distribution. The fruits when boiled in water with salt are appreciated as a food.
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    • [1947年12月27日, L[iberty] H[yde] Bailey, Indigenous Palms of Trinidad and Tobago (Gentes Herbarum: Occasional Papers on the Kinds of Plants), 卷 VII, fascicle IV, Ithaca, N.Y.: Bailey Hortorium of The New York State College of Agriculture, Cornell University, →OCLC頁號 353:
      This Guilielma [the peach palm or pejibaye (Guilielma gasipaes)] is prized in Trinidad, as well as elsewhere, for its edible fruits; by the natives I have heard it called piliwa and piwa.
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    • 1984, Jeffrey W. Dellimore, Judy A. Whitehead, Secondary Agrobased Industries: ECCM and Barbados (Caribbean Technology Policy Studies Project; 90), Mona, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, →OCLC,頁號 79:
      Nonconventional sources with development potential include: [...] wild plants such as gru gru, pewa (peach nut), many weeds and, possibly, the seeds of seaside grapes, fat pork, etc.
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  2. 桃椰子,上述植物的果實
    • 1994, Sylvia Moodie-Kablalsingh, The Cocoa Panyols of Trinidad: An Oral Record, London, New York, N.Y.: British Academic Press, →ISBN,頁號 42:
      Nicolasa had boiled a couple dozen peewahs. They were of a floury consistency. I cracked open the nuts and chewed them slowly, squeezing out the juice against my palate.
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    • 1996, Nalo Hopkinson, “A Habit of Waste”, 出自 Fireweed, Toronto, Ont.: Fireweed Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC,頁號 40,列號 2; republished in Victor J[ammona] Ramraj 編, Concert of Voices: An Anthology of World Writing in English, 2nd版, Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2009, →ISBN頁號 186:
      I start to remember Julie mango, how it sweet, and chataigne and peewah that me mother would boil up in a big pot a' salt water, and how my father always had he little kitchen garden, growin' dasheen leaf and pigeon peas and yam and thing.
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    • 2000 November, Karl Burgess, “La Vega Estate”, 出自 Pamela Collins 編, Proceedings: Regional Agro-tourism Conference: Agro-tourism – a Sustainable Approach to Economic Growth [], Trinidad and Tobago: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, →OCLC頁號 79:
      Mr. [Bertram] Manhin's travels resulted in his introducing into the country fruits like Pewa (Bactris gasipaes) from Costa Rica, Brazil and Peru; [...]
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    • 2009, Ann Vanderhoof, “Curry Tabanca: Trinidad”, 出自 The Spice Necklace: A Food-lover’s Caribbean Adventure, Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday Canada, →ISBN頁號 190:
      Every Saturday, I make it my mission to buy something new: [...] peewah, which look like cute, golf-ball-sized coconuts (they're the fruit of a different palm tree) and are a popular Trini snack. Boiled in well-salted water, peeled and popped into our mouths, they remind us of roasted chestnuts.
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    • 2013年4月6日, Angelo Bissessarsingh, “The marchandes of Port-of-Spain”, 出自 Trinidad and Tobago Guardian[1], Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago: Trinidad Pub. Co., →OCLC,於9 July 2020歸檔自原頁面:
      The fruit of the land would also be sold from wooden trays—peewah, topi tambo, pois doux and other natural treats.
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參考資料

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  1. Lise Winer (2009), “peewa, peewah”, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On Historical Principles,Montreal, Que.:McGill–Queen’s University PressISBN 978-0-7735-3406-3第 682 頁, 第 1 卷。

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