单词 | palm tree |
释义 | palm tree (once / 3895 pages) n WORD FAMILY palm tree: palm trees USAGE EXAMPLESAnd not just because it’s devastatingly pretty with an azure bay circled by palm trees. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) A gentle breeze rustled palm trees Wednesday as the president’s motorcade traveled from his Kailua vacation home to a nearby Marine Corps base gym. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) The idea occurred to me as I walked among the palm trees on the campus of U.C.L.A. New York Times(Oct 12, 2016) n any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves Syn|Hypo|Hyper palm sago palm any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago feather palmpalm having pinnate or featherlike leaves fan palmpalm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves calamusany tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes fishtail palmattractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage Cocos nucifera, coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut treetall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics corozo, corozo palmany of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts Euterpe oleracea, cabbage palmBrazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young Livistona australis, cabbage palm, cabbage treeAustralian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young Nipa fruticans, nipa palmany 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 palma large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks lady palmany of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants Roystonea regia, royal palmtall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba Roystonea oleracea, cabbage palmWest Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young palmettoany of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves Acrocomia vinifera, coyol, coyol palmtropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm, macambatropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts arecaany of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts Arenga pinnata, gomuti, gomuti palm, sugar palmMalaysian 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 palmBrazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palmtall 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 palmclimbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes Calamus australis, lawyer canetall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palmfishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago Ceroxylon alpinum, Ceroxylon andicola, wax palmpalm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, carnauba, carnauba palm, wax palmBrazilian 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 palmSouth American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax Corypha gebanga, Corypha utan, gebang palmlarge-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers latanier, latanier palmfan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region Corypha umbraculifera, talipot, talipot palmtall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper oil palmpinnate-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 palmMalaysian 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 macaotall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory Orbignya cohune, cohune, cohune palmtropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory Phoenix dactylifera, date palmtall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit Phytelephas macrocarpa, ivory palm, ivory plant, ivory-nut palma stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts Raffia taedigera, jupati, jupati palm, jupatya 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 palma palm of the genus Raffia Rhapis excelsa, bamboo palm, fern rhapis, miniature fan palmsmall graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers Rhapis humilis, reed rhapis, slender lady palmChinese lady palm with more slender stems and finer sheath fibers than Rhapis excelsa Serenoa repens, saw palmetto, scrub palmettosmall hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States Thrinax parviflora, broom palm, silver thatch, thatch palm, thatch treesmall palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto Thrinax keyensis, Thrinax microcarpa, Thrinax morrisii, key palm, silver thatch, silvertop palmettosmall stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms |
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