English > feather palm: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves. |
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| Narrower | areca | Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts |
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| babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, Orbignya martiana | tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory |
| cohune palm, Orbignya cohune, cohune | Tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory |
| coyol, coyol palm, Acrocomia vinifera | Tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber |
| date palm, Phoenix dactylifera | tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit |
| grugru, gri-gri, grugru palm, macamba, Acrocomia aculeata | Tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts |
| ivory palm, ivory-nut palm, ivory plant, Phytelephas macrocarpa | A stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts |
| oil palm | pinnate-leaved palms of the genus Elaeis having dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit and yielding high quality palm oils |
| piassava palm, pissaba palm, Bahia piassava, bahia coquilla, Attalea funifera | Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes |
| wax palm, Ceroxylon andicola, Ceroxylon alpinum | palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles |
| Broader | palm, palm tree | Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves |
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