date palm

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date palm

A palm tree (Phoenix dactylifera) of western Asia and northern Africa and cultivated also in California, having featherlike leaves and bearing clusters of dates.

date palm

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a feather palm, Phoenix dactylifera, probably native to N Africa and SW Asia and widely grown in other arid warm temperate and subtropical regions for its edible fruit (dates)

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date palm - tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit

Phoenix dactylifera

date - sweet edible fruit of the date palm with a single long woody seed

feather palm - palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves

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He was standing before a goat-skin tent amidst a clump of date palms within a tiny oasis.

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The date palms of the little fertile spot they had just left, and the circle of goatskin tents, stood out in sharp relief against the yellow sand--a phantom paradise upon a phantom sea.

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