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🌴 A tropical palm 🍊 An edible fruit 🧴 A reddish oil
buriti

buriti

9.9
A reddish oil made from the fruit and used in cooking and for skin care
  • noun
translation icon : aceite de burití
  • The buriti oil is a popular ingredient in many natural cosmetics due to its nourishing properties.

Examples

  • In her beauty routine, she swears by the moisturizing effects of buriti oil on her skin.

  • She used buriti oil to enhance the flavor of her salad dressing and give it a unique twist.

  • Next now moving on to bronzer. I'm gonna use the RMS Beauty Buriti bronzer. Our hot kudos. Oh, my God.

Surface Forms

buriti singular
buritis plural

Etymology

Buriti comes from an Indigenous Brazilian name for the palm and its fruit, and because people press that fruit to make oil the name also came to mean the reddish oil. So buriti now refers to the oil used in cooking and beauty products.