feather palm

/ˌfɛðər pɑ(l)m/

Other forms: feather palms

Definitions of feather palm

1. noun

   palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves
   types:

   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 piassava, bahia coquilla, 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

   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

   Orbignya cohune, cohune, cohune palm

   tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

   Phoenix dactylifera, date palm

   tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit

   Phytelephas macrocarpa, ivory palm, ivory plant, ivory-nut palm

   a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts

   Areca catechu, betel palm

   southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk)

   African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis

   oil palm of Africa

   American oil palm, Elaeis oleifera

   palm of Central and South America

   type of:

   palm, palm tree

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