Definition of Date palm

1. Noun. Tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit.

Exact synonyms: Phoenix Dactylifera
Terms within: Date
Generic synonyms: Feather Palm

Definition of Date palm

1. Noun. A palm tree, ''Phoenix dactylifera'', whose fruit is the date. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Date Palm

date-of-birth
date-rape
date-rapist
date-rapists
date back
date bar
date boil
date bread
date fever
date from
date line
date night
date nights
date of birth
date of reference
date palm (current term)
date palms
date plum
date rape drugs
date rapes
date rapists
date stamp
date with destiny
dateable
datebook
datebooks
dated

Literary usage of Date palm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Care should be taken, in the hotter part of the year, that the date palm is not ... The date palm comes into bearing early, examples being known in ..."

2. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"THE EDITOR FOR many years botanists have wondered where the date palm as a distinct species originated. Sentiment has seemed to incline toward North Africa ..."

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