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.

Derived terms

Texas phoenix palm decline

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