date palm

American  

noun

date palms plural

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.

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date palm British  

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)

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• date palms
  plural

Etymology

Origin of date palm

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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date palm

All five patients had recently consumed raw date palm sap, a sweet liquid commonly collected during winter and frequently visited by bats.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026

"Interestingly, we have found evidence that they also consumed dates, even though the date palm isn't ubiquitous in Tamil Nadu at present," he adds.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025

Workers — many undocumented — fled, some going into the fields, hiding beneath grapevines or climbing up date palm trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

Near her grave, she would sit and pray under the date palm and among the flowering plants, a few hours of peace in Cairo ’s historic City of the Dead.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

Hence at Benghazi, on the north African coast, the date palm is fertile, but produces fruit of poor quality.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth