1880 L. Wallace 225 The sky palely blue through the groinery of countless date-bearers.
1894 H. Drummond vii. 242 The garden plants, the date-bearers, were females, the desert plants were males.
2007 W. T. Vollmann (2008) vi. 114 I remember how some palmeros in Imperial Valley used to complain about the hundred-foot date-bearers they scaled.