peach palm

American  

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.

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Example Sentences

Plant remains show the use of maize, legumes, and multiple palm species -- moriche palm, corozo palm, cumare palm, totai palm, palmita, and peach palm.

From Science Daily

Peach palm and camu camu fruit, leaf-cutter and Santander ants, tallo leaves, caiman and capybara are some of the lesser-known treats in store on her impeccable Ciclo-Bioma, menu, created in conjunction with sommelier daughter Laura Hernández-Espinosa.

From The Guardian

Using a different method, Jorge Mora-Urpi, one of Clement’s collaborators, concluded that Indians might have bred the modern peach palm by hybridizing palms from several areas, including the Peruvian Amazon.

From Literature

The protection is little needed; peach palm wood is hard enough that in the Beni it was used for saw blades.

From Literature

Like strawberries, peach palm throws out adventitious shoots.

From Literature