palm tree, palm - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves

Acrocomia vinifera, coyol, coyol palm - tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber

Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm, macamba - tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts

areca - any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts

Attalea funifera, bahia coquilla, Bahia piassava, piassava palm, pissaba palm - Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes

Ceroxylon alpinum, Ceroxylon andicola, wax palm - palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles

oil palm - pinnate-leaved palms of the genus Elaeis having dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit and yielding high quality palm oils

babassu, babassu palm, coco de macao, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa - tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

cohune, cohune palm, Orbignya cohune - tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory

date palm, Phoenix dactylifera - tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit

ivory palm, ivory plant, ivory-nut palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa - a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts