PALM FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palm family mean? 

• PALM FAMILY (noun)
  The noun PALM FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: PALM FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALM FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae

Hypernyms ("palm family" is a kind of...):

liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "palm family"):

Elaeis; genus Elaeis (oil palms)

genus Thrinax; Thrinax (small to medium-sized fan palms)

genus Serenoa; Serenoa (one species: saw palmetto)

genus Sabal; Sabal (American dwarf fan palms)

genus Roystonea; Roystonea (a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms)

genus Rhapis; Rhapis (genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan)

genus Raffia; genus Raphia; Raffia; Raphia (feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes)

genus Phytelephas; phytelephas (small genus of South American feather palms)

genus Phoenix; phoenix (a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa)

genus Phoenicophorium; phoenicophorium (latanier palm)

genus Orbignya; Orbignya (palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm)

genus Nipa; genus Nypa; Nipa; Nypa (monotypic genus of palms of Australasia)

genus Metroxylon; Metroxylon (a genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die)

genus Livistona; Livistona (fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia)

Euterpe; genus Euterpe (a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America)

Corypha; genus Corypha (large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia)

genus Corozo (a monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees)

Copernicia; genus Copernicia (slow-growing tropical fan palms)

Cocos; genus Cocos (coconut palms)

Ceroxylon; genus Ceroxylon (wax palms)

Caryota; genus Caryota (fishtail palms)

genus Calamus (distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest)

Borassus; genus Borassus (palmyra)

Attalea; genus Attalea (unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America)

Arenga; genus Arenga (a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees)

genus Areca (a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees)

Acrocomia; genus Acrocomia (Central and South American feather palms)

palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)

Holonyms ("palm family" is a member of...):

order Palmales; Palmales (coextensive with the family Palmae: palms)