phoenix palm
English
Alternative forms
- phœnix palm (obsolete)
Noun
phoenix palm (plural phoenix palms)
- Any of various palms of the genus Phoenix, including the date palm.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phœnix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.