peach palm

noun

1. a palm, Bactris gasipaes, having very spiny, tall stems, widely cultivated in the New World tropics for its edible fruit and palm hearts.

Example Sentences

This new palm was the “pupunha,” or “peach-palm,” as it is called, from the resemblance which its fruits bear to peaches.

From Project Gutenberg

Among these the peach-palm is quite conspicuous, with its spiny stems and mealy, nutritious fruit.

From Project Gutenberg