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

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

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