IVORY PALM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ivory palm mean? 

• IVORY PALM (noun)
  The noun IVORY PALM has 1 sense:

1. a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts

  Familiarity information: IVORY PALM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IVORY PALM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

ivory-nut palm; ivory palm; ivory plant; Phytelephas macrocarpa

Hypernyms ("ivory palm" is a kind of...):

feather palm (palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "ivory palm"):

apple nut; ivory nut; vegetable ivory (nutlike seed of a South American palm; the hard white shell takes a high polish and is used for e.g. buttons)

Holonyms ("ivory palm" is a member of...):

genus Phytelephas; phytelephas (small genus of South American feather palms)

 Context examples 

Well, it is a vegetable ivory palm, and they run to about fifty or sixty feet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)