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palm family

 
Noun palm family has 1 sense
  1. Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales
    --1 is a kind of monocot family, liliopsid family
    --1 is a member of Palmales, order Palmales
    --1 has members:
     palm, palm tree; Acrocomia, genus Acrocomia; genus Areca; Arenga, genus Arenga; Attalea, genus Attalea; Borassus, genus Borassus; genus Calamus; Caryota, genus Caryota; Ceroxylon, genus ceroxylon; Cocos, genus Cocos; Copernicia, genus Copernicia; genus Corozo; Corypha, genus Corypha; Elaeis, genus Elaeis; Euterpe, genus Euterpe; Livistona, genus Livistona; Metroxylon, genus Metroxylon; Nipa, genus Nipa, Nypa, genus Nypa; Orbignya, genus Orbignya; Phoenicophorium, genus Phoenicophorium; Phoenix, genus Phoenix; Phytelephas, genus Phytelephas; Raffia, genus Raffia, Raphia, genus Raphia; Rhapis, genus Rhapis; Roystonea, genus Roystonea; Sabal, genus Sabal; Serenoa, genus Serenoa; Thrinax, genus Thrinax
palm-fringed palm-shaped palm-studded palm-tree-lined palm palm beach palm cat palm civet palm family palm fruit palm kernel palm nut palm off palm oil palm reading palm springs palm sunday

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