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date palm
noun
- 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
- 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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Word History and Origins
Origin of date palm1
First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences
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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