palm family

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palm family - 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 Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, family Palmaceae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, Palmae liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed order Palmales, Palmales - coextensive with the family Palmae: palms palm tree, palm - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves Acrocomia, genus Acrocomia - Central and South American feather palms genus Areca - a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees 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 genus Calamus - distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest Caryota, genus Caryota - fishtail palms Ceroxylon, genus Ceroxylon - wax palms Cocos, genus Cocos - coconut palms Copernicia, genus Copernicia - slow-growing tropical fan palms genus Corozo - a monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees 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 genus Livistona, Livistona - fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia genus Metroxylon, Metroxylon - a genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die genus Nipa, genus Nypa, Nipa, Nypa - monotypic genus of palms of Australasia genus Orbignya, Orbignya - palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm genus Phoenicophorium, phoenicophorium - latanier palm genus Phoenix, phoenix - a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa genus Phytelephas, phytelephas - small genus of South American feather palms genus Raffia, genus Raphia, Raphia, Raffia - feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes genus Rhapis, Rhapis - genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan genus Roystonea, Roystonea - a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms genus Sabal, Sabal - American dwarf fan palms genus Serenoa, Serenoa - one species: saw palmetto genus Thrinax, Thrinax - small to medium-sized fan palms