date palm

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date palm (plural date palms)

2. A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.
   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 87:

     The date palms of the little fertile spot they had just left, and the circle of goatskin tents, stood out in sharp relief against the yellow sand—a phantom paradise upon a phantom sea.

• (Phoenix dactylifera): date, date tree

• dam plate, palmated