palm tree

/pɑ(l)m tri/

/pɑlm tri/

Other forms: palm trees

Definitions of palm tree

1. noun

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

   types:

   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

   Cocos nucifera, coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut tree

   tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics

   corozo, corozo palm

   any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts

   Euterpe oleracea, cabbage palm

   Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young

   Livistona australis, cabbage palm, cabbage tree

   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 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

   lady palm

   any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants

   Roystonea regia, royal palm

   tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba

   Roystonea oleracea, cabbage palm

   West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young

   palmetto

   any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves

   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

   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

   Attalea funifera, Bahia piassava, bahia coquilla, piassava palm, pissaba palm

   Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes

   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

   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

   Calamus australis, lawyer cane

   tall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia

   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

   Ceroxylon alpinum, Ceroxylon andicola, wax palm

   palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles

   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

   Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, caranda, caranda palm, caranday, wax palm

   South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax

   Corypha gebanga, Corypha utan, gebang palm

   large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers

   latanier, latanier palm

   fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region

   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

   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

   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

   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

   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

   Raffia vinifera, bamboo palm

   a palm of the genus Raffia

   Rhapis excelsa, bamboo palm, fern rhapis, miniature fan palm

   small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers

   Rhapis humilis, reed rhapis, slender lady palm

   Chinese lady palm with more slender stems and finer sheath fibers than Rhapis excelsa

   Serenoa repens, saw palmetto, scrub palmetto

   small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States

   Thrinax parviflora, broom palm, silver thatch, thatch palm, thatch tree

   small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto

   Thrinax keyensis, Thrinax microcarpa, Thrinax morrisii, key palm, silver thatch, silvertop palmetto

   small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba

   type of:

   tree

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