dum palm

Noun

doum palm (plural doum palms)

1. A palm tree of species Hyphaene thebaica, with edible oval fruit, native to northern Africa and some countries of the Levant.
   • The country to the east of Derudeb [Sudan] was bleached and sere, and there were long grey cliffs and dom palms growing in the wadis.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 18

   Synonyms:

   doum, gingerbread palm, gingerbread tree