English > palm tree: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves. |
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| Synonym | palm |
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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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| Narrower | cabbage palm, Roystonea oleracea | West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young / young |
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| cabbage palm, Euterpe oleracea | Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young / young |
| cabbage palm, cabbage tree, Livistona australis | Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young / young |
| calamus | Any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus |
| coconut, coconut palm, coco palm, coco, cocoa palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera | tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits |
| corozo, corozo palm | Any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts |
| fan palm | palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves |
| feather palm | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves |
| fishtail palm | attractive East Indian palm having distinctive / distinctive bipinnate foliage |
| lady palm | Any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis |
| nipa palm, Nipa fruticans | Any creeping semiaquatic feather palm of the genus Nipa found in mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries |
| raffia palm, Raffia farinifera, Raffia ruffia | A large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar / Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks |
| royal palm, Roystonea regia | tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba |
| sago palm | Any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago |
| Broader | tree | A tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown |
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| Spanish | palma, palmera |
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| Catalan | palma, palmera, palmer |
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