phoenix palm

English

Alternative forms

• phœnix palm (obsolete)

Noun

phoenix palm (plural phoenix palms)

1. Any of various palms of the genus Phoenix, including the date palm.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phœnix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.

Derived terms

• Texas phoenix palm decline