phoenix dactylifera

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

   Synonymsdate palm

   Broaderfeather palm

   Partsdate

Questions about phoenix dactylifera

What does phoenix dactylifera mean?

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

What is another word for phoenix dactylifera?

Close synonyms include date palm. 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 phoenix dactylifera a common word?

phoenix dactylifera is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.