| 单词 | oil palm | 
| 释义 | oil palmn.  A palm tree that bears oil-yielding fruit or seed; spec.		 (a) (more fully  African oil palm)  Elaeis guineensis, the chief source of palm oil, native to West Africa but widely cultivated in tropical regions;		 (b) (more fully  American oil palm)  E. oleifera of tropical America. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > palm trees > 			[noun]		 > oil palms macaw1657 groo-groo1796 macaw fat1801 oil palm1850 macca-fat palm1873 babassu1876 oil-berry tree1878 macca1892 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > 			[noun]		 > trees or shrubs yielding oil > tropical > oil-palms macaw1657 macaw fat1801 oil palm1850 macca-fat palm1873 babassu1876 oil-berry tree1878 1731    P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Palma  				The Oily Palm grows in great Plenty on the Coast of Guiney..: But these Trees have been transplanted to Jamaica and Barbadoes, in both which Places they thrive very well.]			 1850    N. Amer. Rev. July 29  				The forests contain every kind of timber,—mahogany, ebony, dye-woods, the oil-palm, &c. 1866    J. Lindley  & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 443/2  				Elæis guineensis, the African Oil Palm, which yields the celebrated palm oil, is a native of tropical Western Africa. 1907    W. G. Freeman  & S. E. Chandler World's Commerc. Products 374  				The well-known Oil Palm of the West Coast of Africa..furnishes two different oils. 1954    R. E. Holttum Plant Life Malaya vi. 81  				Oil palms are the next most important oil crop [after coconut] in Malaya. 1974    G. Usher Dict. Plants used by Man 177/2  				C[orozo] oleifera, (American Oil Palm, Corozo, Noli Palm). 1999    South China Morning Post 		(Hong Kong)	 11 Oct. 9/1  				A long-standing feud between an oil palm estate and local villagers over stray cattle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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