wild date

noun

1. a feather palm, Phoenix sylvestris, of India, having drooping, bluish-green or grayish leaves and small, orange-yellow fruit.

Example Sentences

Outside the gardens grow some wild date-palms, which yield a smaller crop, but whose fruit is much more savoury.

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In the parts through which he passed these mounds were generally covered by masses of wild date trees.

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These are generally covered with wild date-trees and palmyras, and in some parts there are forests of mimosae and mopane.

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The banks are lined with palm, wild date-trees, and many guavas, the fruit of which was now becoming ripe.

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The members thereof are employed in hunting, cultivation, and the manufacture of wild date baskets.

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