feather palm
Noun
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Palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves (synset 112603594)
is a type of: palm, palm tree - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leavessubtypes:
- acrocomia vinifera, coyol, coyol palm - tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber
- acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm, macamba - tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts
- areca - any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts
- attalea funifera, bahia coquilla, bahia piassava, piassava palm, pissaba palm - Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes
- ceroxylon alpinum, ceroxylon andicola, wax palm - palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles
- oil palm - pinnate-leaved palms of the genus Elaeis having dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit and yielding high quality palm oils
- babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao, orbignya martiana, orbignya phalerata, orbignya spesiosa - tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
- cohune, cohune palm, orbignya cohune - tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
- date palm, phoenix dactylifera - tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit
- ivory palm, ivory plant, ivory-nut palm, phytelephas macrocarpa - a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts
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