English > genus Euterpe: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | A monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America. |
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Synonym | Euterpe |
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Member of | Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves |
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Members | cabbage palm, Euterpe oleracea | Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young / young |
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Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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Spanish | euterpe, genus euterpe |
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Catalan | euterpe, genus euterpe |
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