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FEATHER PALM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does feather palm mean?
• FEATHER PALM (noun)
The noun FEATHER PALM has 1 sense:
1. palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves
Familiarity information: FEATHER PALM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("feather palm" is a kind of...):
palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feather palm"):
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-nut palm; ivory palm; ivory plant; Phytelephas macrocarpa (a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts)
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