PALM TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does palm tree mean? 

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

1. any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PALM TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

palm; palm tree

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "palm tree"):

sago palm (any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago)

feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)

fan palm (palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves)

calamus (any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes)

fishtail palm (attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage)

coco; coco palm; cocoa palm; coconut; coconut palm; coconut tree; Cocos nucifera (tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics)

corozo; corozo palm (any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts)

cabbage palm; Euterpe oleracea (Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young)

cabbage palm; cabbage tree; Livistona australis (Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young)

Nipa fruticans; nipa palm (any creeping semiaquatic feather palm of the genus Nipa found in mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries; its sap is used for a liquor; leaves are used for thatch; fruit has edible seeds)

Raffia farinifera; raffia palm; Raffia ruffia (a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks)

lady palm (any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants)

royal palm; Roystonea regia (tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba)

cabbage palm; Roystonea oleracea (West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young)

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

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (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)

 Context examples 

A juice product obtained from the fruit of the acai palm tree (Euterpe oleracea) with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and potential chemopreventive activities.

(Acai Berry Juice, NCI Thesaurus)

Climbing plants are monstrous and luxuriant, but others which have never been known to climb elsewhere learn the art as an escape from that somber shadow, so that the common nettle, the jasmine, and even the jacitara palm tree can be seen circling the stems of the cedars and striving to reach their crowns.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)