palm tree

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palm tree - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves palm 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 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 palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera, coconut - tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics corozo, corozo palm - any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts Euterpe oleracea, cabbage palm - Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young cabbage tree, Livistona australis, cabbage palm - 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 Roystonea oleracea, cabbage palm - West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms