doum palm

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doum palm

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From Arabic دوم (dawm) + palm.

Noun

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doum palm (plural doum palms)

  1. A palm tree of species Hyphaene thebaica, with edible oval fruit, native to northern Africa and countries of the Levant.
    • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 18:
      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.

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