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oil palm

American  

noun

  1. an African feather palm, Elaeis guineensis, the fruits of which yield palm oil.


oil palm British  

noun

  1. a tropical African palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, the fruits of which yield palm oil

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Etymology

Origin of oil palm

First recorded in 1715–25

Example Sentences

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I would prepare soup with the cocoyam leaves and the bright orange palm nuts I’d picked from an oil palm tree the day before.

From Literature

To get by, some producers are diversifying by planting oil palms or hevea trees used to make rubber, which, unlike cocoa's seasonal harvest, produce 11 months of the year.

From Barron's

Wong recalls how farmers cut down durian trees to make room for oil palms, the country's main cash crop, during an economic downturn in the 1990s.

From BBC

Some hang out under humongous oil palm trees.

From Literature

It even exceeds the rate of deforestation due to oil palm production, at least in relative terms, in other parts of the world.

From Science Daily