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Acrocomia vinifera, coyol, coyol palm
tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber
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Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm, macamba
tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts
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areca
any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts
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Attalea funifera, Bahia piassava, bahia coquilla, piassava palm, pissaba palm
Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes
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Ceroxylon alpinum, Ceroxylon andicola, wax palm
palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles
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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
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Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao
tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
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Orbignya cohune, cohune, cohune palm
tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
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Phoenix dactylifera, date palm
tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit
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Phytelephas macrocarpa, ivory palm, ivory plant, ivory-nut palm
a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts
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Areca catechu, betel palm
southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk)
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African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis
oil palm of Africa
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American oil palm, Elaeis oleifera
palm of Central and South America
