English > palm family: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales. |
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| Synonyms | Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae |
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| Member of | Palmales, order Palmales | coextensive with the family Palmae |
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| Members | Acrocomia, genus Acrocomia | Central and South American feather palms |
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| Arenga, genus Arenga | A genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees |
| Attalea, genus Attalea | Unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America |
| Borassus, genus Borassus | palmyra |
| Caryota, genus Caryota | fishtail palms |
| Ceroxylon, genus Ceroxylon | wax palms |
| Cocos, genus Cocos | coconut palms |
| Copernicia, genus Copernicia | Slow-growing tropical fan palms |
| Corypha, genus Corypha | large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia |
| Elaeis, genus Elaeis | oil palms |
| Euterpe, genus Euterpe | A monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America |
| Livistona, genus Livistona | fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia |
| Metroxylon, genus Metroxylon | A genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die |
| Nipa, genus Nipa, Nypa, genus Nypa | monotypic genus of palms of Australasia |
| Orbignya, genus Orbignya | palms of southern Mexico to northern South America |
| Raffia, genus Raffia, Raphia, genus Raphia | feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes |
| Rhapis, genus Rhapis | genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan |
| Roystonea, genus Roystonea | A monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms |
| Sabal, genus Sabal | American dwarf fan palms |
| Serenoa, genus Serenoa | One species |
| Thrinax, genus Thrinax | small to medium-sized fan palms |
| genus Areca | A monocotyledonous genus of palm trees |
| genus Calamus | distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest / forest |
| genus Corozo | A monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees |
| palm, palm tree | Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves |
| phoenicophorium, genus Phoenicophorium | latanier palm |
| phoenix, genus Phoenix | A large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa |
| phytelephas, genus Phytelephas | small genus of South American feather palms |
| Broader | monocot family, liliopsid family | family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | Palmaceae, Palmae, palmas |
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| Catalan | Arecaceae, Palmae |
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