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date palm

date palm noun: a palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.

date palm: a palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date
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Noun

date palm (plural date palms)

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

date palm meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam

date palm in Hindi

Phoenix dactylifera
खजूर khajūr

date palm in Tamil

Phoenix dactylifera
பேரீச்சை pērīccai, ஈந்து īntu

date palm in Telugu

Phoenix dactylifera
ఖర్జూరం kharjūraṁ

date palm in Malayalam

Phoenix dactylifera
ഈന്തപ്പന īntappana
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date palm in Punjabi
ਖਜੂਰ khajūr, کَھجُور khajūr
date palm in Gujarati
ખજૂર khajūr
date palm in Sanskrit
हिन्ताल hintāla
date palm in Arabic
نَخْلَة naḵla
date palm in Persian
خرما xormâ
date palm in Thai
อินทผลัม in-tá-pà-lam
date palm in Vietnamese
chà là
date palm in Myanmar
စွန်ပလွံ cwanpa.lwam
Kashmiri
کھٔزٕر کُل khạzụr kul

Synonyms of date palm

Forms of date palm

pluraldate palms

Words formed from date palm

  • African wild date palm
  • Phoenix reclinata
  • Canary Island date palm
  • Phoenix canariensis
  • Cape Verde Island date palm
  • Phoenix atlantica
  • Ceylon date palm
  • Phoenix pusilla
  • cliff date palm
  • Phoenix rupicola
  • Cretan date palm
  • Phoenix theophrasti
  • dwarf date palm Phoenix acaulis
  • Phoenix roebelenii
  • mountain date palm
  • Phoenix loureiroi
  • Senegal date palm
  • silver date palm
  • Phoenix sylvestris
  • sugar date palm

Questions about date palm

What does date palm mean?
Date palm means a palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date.
What is date palm in Hindi?
Date palm in Hindi is खजूर (khajūr). See Date palm meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is date palm?
Date palm is a noun.
What is the plural of date palm?
The plural of date palm is date palms.

Words near date palm in the dictionary

  1. date night
  2. date nights
  3. date of birth
  4. date of death
  5. date out
  6. date palm
  7. date palms
  8. date plum
  9. date plums
  10. date rape
  11. date rape drug

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: date palm (page history and authors); ખજૂર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); हिन्ताल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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