wild date
a feather palm, Phoenix sylvestris, of India, having drooping, bluish-green or grayish leaves and small, orange-yellow fruit.
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How to use wild date in a sentence
Outside the gardens grow some wild date-palms, which yield a smaller crop, but whose fruit is much more savoury.
The Desert World | Arthur ManginIn the parts through which he passed these mounds were generally covered by masses of wild date trees.
The World and Its People: Book VII | Anna B. BadlamThese are generally covered with wild date-trees and palmyras, and in some parts there are forests of mimosae and mopane.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David LivingstoneThe banks are lined with palm, wild date-trees, and many guavas, the fruit of which was now becoming ripe.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa | David LivingstoneThe members thereof are employed in hunting, cultivation, and the manufacture of wild date baskets.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India | Edgar Thurston
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