phoenix palm

noun

Any of various palms of the genus Phoenix, including the date palm.

Meanings

nounphoenix palm (plural phoenix palms)

plural phoenix palms · alternative phœnix palm

  1. Any of various palms of the genus Phoenix, including the date palm.

    The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phœnix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.

    1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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