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Palm family

noun

Chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales. Synonyms: Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, family Palmaceae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, Palmae.

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... several other members of the palm family, the male and female flowers are found on different individuals. The female tree, after attaining the age of about thirty years, annually produces a large drupe or fruit-bunch, consisting of five or six nuts, each enveloped ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 - Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 • Various

... sufficient food on trees to supply their wants. Many people in some of the groups in the South Sea Islands live on cocoanuts. In South America several species of trees are cultivated by the natives for the food they furnish. The palm family contributes much food to the natives, and also furnishes a large supply of food to the markets of the world. The well-known breadfruit tree bears during eight successive months in the year, and by burying the fruit in the ground it may be preserved for food for the remaining ...

— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar

... called a frozen grove of skeleton trees, a conservatory of dead specimens belonging to the palm family, calling up the memory of an impossible phoenix and unlikely palms; but it also recalled by its half-moon shape and doubtful light, the image of a ship's prow below water. In fact it allowed to filter through ...

— En Route • J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

... was very beautiful, and there was a wonderful variety of the palm family. We wandered through very thorny and tangled vegetation. We espied a fire not far off and went to inspect it, but saw no natives, though there were plenty ...

— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker

Words linked to "Palm family" : raffia, genus Copernicia, Euterpe, genus Nipa, genus Arenga, Corypha, Orbignya, genus Elaeis, Rhapis, Arenga, family Arecaceae, genus Roystonea, genus Phoenix, Cocos, phytelephas, raphia, Palmaceae, genus Phytelephas, genus Caryota, Sabal, genus Nypa, Caryota, genus Phoenicophorium, genus Attalea, Elaeis, order Palmales, genus Rhapis, genus Metroxylon, genus Raphia, genus Thrinax, Acrocomia, monocot family, genus Corozo, genus Cocos, genus Euterpe, family Palmaceae, Copernicia, palm, palm tree, Palmales, genus Sabal, nipa, genus Acrocomia, genus Calamus, genus Raffia, Thrinax, Roystonea, Palmae, phoenicophorium, Borassus, genus Serenoa, genus Borassus, genus Livistona, Livistona, Attalea, Ceroxylon, phoenix, Serenoa, genus Areca, Metroxylon, genus Ceroxylon, family Palmae, genus Corypha, liliopsid family, genus Orbignya, Nypa