family Palmaceae

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family Palmaceae - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order PalmalesArecaceae, family Arecaceae, family Palmae, palm family, Palmaceae, Palmaeliliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedorder Palmales, Palmales - coextensive with the family Palmae: palmspalm tree, palm - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leavesAcrocomia, genus Acrocomia - Central and South American feather palmsgenus Areca - a monocotyledonous genus of palm treesArenga, genus Arenga - a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm treesAttalea, genus Attalea - unarmed feather palms of central and northern South AmericaBorassus, genus Borassus - palmyragenus Calamus - distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forestCaryota, genus Caryota - fishtail palmsCeroxylon, genus Ceroxylon - wax palmsCocos, genus Cocos - coconut palmsCopernicia, genus Copernicia - slow-growing tropical fan palmsgenus Corozo - a monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm treesCorypha, genus Corypha - large fan palms of tropical Asia to AustraliaElaeis, genus Elaeis - oil palmsEuterpe, genus Euterpe - a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical Americagenus Livistona, Livistona - fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysiagenus Metroxylon, Metroxylon - a genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then diegenus Nipa, genus Nypa, Nipa, Nypa - monotypic genus of palms of Australasiagenus Orbignya, Orbignya - palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palmgenus Phoenicophorium, phoenicophorium - latanier palmgenus Phoenix, phoenix - a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africagenus Phytelephas, phytelephas - small genus of South American feather palmsgenus Raffia, genus Raphia, Raphia, Raffia - feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposesgenus Rhapis, Rhapis - genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japangenus Roystonea, Roystonea - a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palmsgenus Sabal, Sabal - American dwarf fan palmsgenus Serenoa, Serenoa - one species: saw palmettogenus Thrinax, Thrinax - small to medium-sized fan palms