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Oil palms
Answer for the clue "Oil palms ", 6 letters:
elaeis
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Elaeis is a genus of palms containing two species, called oil palms . They are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil . The African oil palm Elaeis guineensis (the species name guineensis referring to its country of origin) is the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Elaeis \E*l[ae]"is\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? olive tree.] (Bot.) A genus of palms. Note: El[ae]is Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than ...