oil palm

English

Noun

oil palm (plural oil palms)

1. A plant of species Elaeis guineensis, principal source of palm oil and palm kernel oil.
   • 2010, Helon Habila, Oil on Water, AudioGO (2011), page 79:

     We […] could see a chain of islands in the distance ahead of us: the tall oil palm trees were like flags waving us in.

2. Any species of palm which can usefully produce palm oil.

Synonyms

• (Elaeis guineensis): African oil palm, macaw fat

Hyponyms

• (any palm that produces palm oil): Elaeis oleifera (American oil palm); Attalea maripa (maripa palm); Cocos nucifera (coconut palm)

Translations

tree that produces palm oil

• Catalan: palmera d'oli f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 油棕櫚／油棕榈 (yóuzōnglǘ)

• Czech: palma olejná f
• Danish: oliepalme c
• Dutch: oliepalm (nl) m
• Estonian: õlipalm
• Finnish: öljypalmu (fi)
• French: palmier à huile (fr) m
• German: Ölpalme f
• Greek: ααβόρα f (aavóra)
• Haitian Creole: glouglou
• Hungarian: olajpálma (hu)
• Indonesian: kelapa sawit (id)
• Italian: palma da olio f
• Japanese: アブラヤシ (aburayashi)
• Korean: 기름 야자 (gireum yaja)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: oljepalme m
• Polish: palma olejowa f
• Portuguese: palmeira-de-óleo f, dendê (pt), dendém, dendezeiro (pt)
• Russian: ма́сличная па́льма f (másličnaja pálʹma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: палма уљарица f

  Roman: palma uljarica f

• Slovak: palma olejná f
• Spanish: palma aceitera f
• Swahili: mchikichi (sw)
• Swedish: oljepalm (sv) c

Anagrams

• lamp-oil, oil lamp, palm oil, palm-oil