family palmae
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Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves;
Coextensive with the order Palmales (synset 112602129)is a type of: liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedmember holonym:- palm, palm tree - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
- acrocomia, genus acrocomia - Central and South American feather palms
- genus areca - a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees
- arenga, genus arenga - a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees
- attalea, genus attalea - unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America
- borassus, genus borassus - palmyra
- genus calamus - distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest
- caryota, genus caryota - fishtail palms
- ceroxylon, genus ceroxylon - wax palms
- cocos, genus cocos - coconut palms
- copernicia, genus copernicia - slow-growing tropical fan palms
- genus corozo - a monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees
- corypha, genus corypha - large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia
- elaeis, genus elaeis - oil palms
- euterpe, genus euterpe - a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America
- genus livistona, livistona - fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia
- genus metroxylon, metroxylon - a genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die
- genus nipa, genus nypa, nipa, nypa - monotypic genus of palms of Australasia
- genus orbignya, orbignya - palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm
- genus phoenicophorium, phoenicophorium - latanier palm
- genus phoenix, phoenix - a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
- genus phytelephas, phytelephas - small genus of South American feather palms
- genus raffia, genus raphia, raffia, raphia - feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes
- genus rhapis, rhapis - genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan
- genus roystonea, roystonea - a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms
- genus sabal, sabal - American dwarf fan palms
- genus serenoa, serenoa - one species: saw palmetto
- genus thrinax, thrinax - small to medium-sized fan palms
belongs to: order palmales, palmales - coextensive with the family Palmae: palms
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