date palm
noun1
A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.
- The date palms of the little fertile spot they had just left, and the circle of goatskin tents, stood out in sharp relief against the yellow sand—a phantom paradise upon a phantom sea.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 87:
- Derived terms
- African wild date palm, Phoenix reclinata, Canary Island date palm, Phoenix canariensis, Cape Verde Island date palm, Phoenix atlantica, Ceylon date palm, Phoenix pusilla, cliff date palm, Phoenix rupicola, Cretan date palm, Phoenix theophrasti, dwarf date palm Phoenix acaulis, Phoenix roebelenii, mountain date palm, Phoenix loureiroi, Senegal date palm, silver date palm, Phoenix sylvestris, sugar date palm