date palm

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   tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit

   SynonymsPhoenix dactylifera

   Broaderfeather palm

   Partsdate

Questions about date palm

What does date palm mean?

date palm means "tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit".

What is another word for date palm?

Close synonyms include Phoenix dactylifera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is date palm a common word?

date palm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.