palm family
English Thesaurus
1. 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 (noun.plant)
| member holonym | : | palm, palm tree, |
| definition | : | any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus areca, |
| definition | : | a monocotyledonous genus of palm trees (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | arenga, genus arenga, |
| definition | : | a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | attalea, genus attalea, |
| definition | : | unarmed feather palms of central and northern South America (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus calamus, |
| definition | : | distinctive often spiny-stemmed palms found as climbers in tropical and subtropical forest (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus corozo, |
| definition | : | a monocotyledonous genus of tropical American palm trees (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | corypha, genus corypha, |
| definition | : | large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | euterpe, genus euterpe, |
| definition | : | a monocotyledonous genus of graceful palm trees in tropical America (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus metroxylon, metroxylon, |
| definition | : | a genus of Malayan pinnate-leaved palm trees that flower and fruit once and then die (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus orbignya, orbignya, |
| definition | : | palms of southern Mexico to northern South America: babassu palm (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus phoenix, phoenix, |
| definition | : | a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus raffia, genus raphia, raffia, raphia, |
| definition | : | feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus rhapis, rhapis, |
| definition | : | genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus roystonea, roystonea, |
| definition | : | a monocotyledonous genus of West Indian feather palms (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | genus sabal, sabal, |
| definition | : | American dwarf fan palms (noun.plant) |
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