feather palm

feather palm

n.

A palm having pinnately compound, featherlike leaves.

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feather palm

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various palm trees, such as the wax palm and date palm, that have pinnate or feather-like leaves Compare fan palm

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feather palm - palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves palm tree, palm - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves Acrocomia vinifera, coyol, coyol palm - tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm, macamba - tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts areca - any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts Attalea funifera, bahia coquilla, Bahia piassava, piassava palm, pissaba palm - Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes Ceroxylon alpinum, Ceroxylon andicola, wax palm - palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles oil palm - pinnate-leaved palms of the genus Elaeis having dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit and yielding high quality palm oils babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa - tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory cohune, cohune palm, Orbignya cohune - tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory date palm, Phoenix dactylifera - tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit ivory palm, ivory plant, ivory-nut palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa - a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts