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PALM TREE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
Synonyms:
palm; palm tree
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("palm tree" is a kind of...):
tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "palm tree"):
sago palm (any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago)
feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)
fan palm (palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves)
calamus (any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes)
fishtail palm (attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage)
coco; coco palm; cocoa palm; coconut; coconut palm; coconut tree; Cocos nucifera (tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics)
corozo; corozo palm (any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts)
cabbage palm; Euterpe oleracea (Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young)
cabbage palm; cabbage tree; Livistona australis (Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young)
Nipa fruticans; nipa palm (any creeping semiaquatic feather palm of the genus Nipa found in mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries; its sap is used for a liquor; leaves are used for thatch; fruit has edible seeds)
Raffia farinifera; raffia palm; Raffia ruffia (a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks)
lady palm (any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants)
royal palm; Roystonea regia (tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba)
cabbage palm; Roystonea oleracea (West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young)
Holonyms ("palm tree" is a member of...):
Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (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)
