wild date

American  

noun

1. a feather palm, Phoenix sylvestris, of India, having drooping, bluish-green or grayish leaves and small, orange-yellow fruit.

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Example Sentences

Yucca Mohavensis, commonly called "wild date," or "Spanish bayonet," is more widely distributed within our borders than either of our other species.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

In the parts through which he passed these mounds were generally covered by masses of wild date trees.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

There was no variety in the country, it was the same undulating land overgrown with impenetrable grass, and wooded with mimosas; every swamp being shaded by clumps of the graceful wild date.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

"Again, a grand mass of gneiss and granite, eleven hundred feet high, would present itself, feathered with beautiful evergreens, with every runnel and rivulet in its clefts fringed with graceful wild date trees."

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.