What is "doum"

Usage examples of "doum".

We ground our way through the empty stream bed, past the twin hillocks that formed a natural gateway, and then we were out in the open with the raised line of the doum palms away to our left, and all ahead the land stretching flat like a salt pan to the El Molo manyatta and the port.

There were bustards here in the grass, and lion, always some elephant down in the doum palm by the river.

Nowhere he could hide a vehicle except at Loiyangalani among the doum palms.

We had glimpses of them later, after we had reached the shelter of the doum palms.

There was the snap of branches, something moving on the doum palm escarpment, then we heard the sound of an engine and headlights swung across the shape of the Mission buildings.

He lay there, shaking his head as though willing it not to happen, his gaze fixed on the doum palm escarpment.

It was stringy with chewed bark that he had stripped from the acacias, and lumpy with the stones of the Doum palm tree.

Almost half a mile ahead, the shaggy head of a tall Doum palm rose above the lesser trees of the savannah.

The bull turned aside and, with his trunk coiled round the aggagier's neck, swung the man against the trunk of a Doum palm with such force that his head was torn from his body, then knelt over the corpse and gored it with his tusks, driving the points through and through again.

Hunger conspired with fatigue to crush him, for a man's system is not greatly restored and fortified by a diet of roots, the pith of plants, such as the Mele, or the fruit of the doum palm-tree.