doum palm
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doum palm (plural doum palms)
- Hyphaene thebaica, a palm tree with edible oval fruit.
- 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 18:
- The country to the east of Derudeb was bleached and sere, and there were long grey cliffs and dom palms growing in the wadis.
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Hyphaene thebaica
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- Hyphaene thebaica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hyphaene thebaica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Hyphaene thebaica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons