date palm

noun

1. any of several date-bearing palms of the genus Phoenix, especially P. dactylifera, having a stem reaching a height of 60 feet (18 meters) and terminating in a crown of pinnate leaves.

date palm

noun

1. 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)

Word History and Origins

Origin of date palm¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

On the east side, the Thermal side, is a gray-green checkerboard of fallow and irrigated fields of grapes, bell peppers and golf-course turf, plus stands of date palms.

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The date palm may be connoted with the ded pillar, and the triple-fronded date of Myken with the trindod or drindod of Britain.

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The bodies of the two stags rest on fronds of the date-palm growing out of the stem which receives the pin.

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The cocoa-nut tree resembles the date palm in every thing except the fruit and leaves, those of the palm being broader.

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Over large parts of these regions the date palm flourishes and affords a valuable article of food.

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Gum-producing acacias are, with the date palm, the commonest trees in Arabia.

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