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 Project Gutenberg

The new spot is about a young man on a wild date and the previous one is about a young man’s show-stopping arrival at a wild party.

From New York Times

"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 Project Gutenberg

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

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The palmyra, the wild date, mohanno, mowanna, and many other tropical trees grew in rich luxuriance, while the thick tangled undergrowth, mixed up with a host of creeping cane-like plants, rendered it impossible to penetrate the forest-land.

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