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sago palm
any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago
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feather palm
palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves
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fan palm
palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves
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calamus
any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes
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fishtail palm
attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage
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Cocos nucifera, coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut tree
tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
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corozo, corozo palm
any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts
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Euterpe oleracea, cabbage palm
Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young
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Livistona australis, cabbage palm, cabbage tree
Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
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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
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Raffia farinifera, Raffia ruffia, raffia palm
a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks
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lady palm
any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants
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Roystonea regia, royal palm
tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba
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Roystonea oleracea, cabbage palm
West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
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palmetto
any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
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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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Arenga pinnata, gomuti, gomuti palm, sugar palm
Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
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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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Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm
tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving
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Calamus rotang, rattan, rattan palm
climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes
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Calamus australis, lawyer cane
tall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia
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Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm
fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
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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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Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, carnauba, carnauba palm, wax palm
Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax
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Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, caranda, caranda palm, caranday, wax palm
South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax
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Corypha gebanga, Corypha utan, gebang palm
large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers
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latanier, latanier palm
fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region
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Corypha umbraculifera, talipot, talipot palm
tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper
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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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Metroxylon sagu, true sago palm
Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji
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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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Raffia taedigera, jupati, jupati palm, jupaty
a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes
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Raffia vinifera, bamboo palm
a palm of the genus Raffia
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Rhapis excelsa, bamboo palm, fern rhapis, miniature fan palm
small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
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Rhapis humilis, reed rhapis, slender lady palm
Chinese lady palm with more slender stems and finer sheath fibers than Rhapis excelsa
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Serenoa repens, saw palmetto, scrub palmetto
small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States
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Thrinax parviflora, broom palm, silver thatch, thatch palm, thatch tree
small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto
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Thrinax keyensis, Thrinax microcarpa, Thrinax morrisii, key palm, silver thatch, silvertop palmetto
small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba