date palm
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- noun
- /deɪt pɑːlm/
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palmera datilera
- Three hours later, a row of date palms interspersed with pink oleander welcomed the King and Queen to Eilat, in the name of the Municipality.
- groves of date palms
Examples
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The corn was high, and date palms hung their heavy loads of fruit over the fresh-running irrigation channels.
Fiction book (1994) -
Every family has 70 or 80 date palms, he explained through an interpreter as we walked through the cool grove.
Academic text (2006) -
Then, behind the hotels, the beautiful buildings, and the date palms, I saw the sea.
Fiction book (1994) -
At midnight, when the moon rose, he saw tiny figures dancing among the date palms.
Fiction book (1994) -
I didn't know date palms could even be found out here.
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It's date palm season.
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An oasis village, Djanet is most memorable to me for its thousands of beautiful date palms and stark vernacular architecture.
Academic text (1991) -
In Ginefab, a small town on the north bank, an elder in a thin cotton robe offered to lead us on an afternoon stroll through the date-palm plantations that stretch down to the fast-moving river.
Academic text (2006) -
The date palm produces sweet, nutritious fruits that are enjoyed around the world.
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In arid regions, the date palm provides both food and shade for local communities.
Synonyms
A tall palm tree from the Middle East and North Africa that people grow for sweet dates
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Morphology
The compound is fully compositional: combining 'date' (the edible fruit) with 'palm' (a type of tree) yields the straightforward meaning 'a palm tree that produces dates.' This noun-noun construction is common cross-linguistically and follows predictable semantic composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will infer the meaning.
Etymology
Date palm names the kind of palm tree that makes 'dates'. Picture a tall palm with bunches of sweet dates hanging like brown beads, and that's why the name means a tree that gives 'dates' and shade in hot places.