The Collaborative International Dictionary
Date \Date\, n.[F. datte, L. dactylus, fr. Gr. ?, prob. not the same word as da`ktylos finger, but of Semitic origin.] (Bot.) The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.
Note: This fruit is somewhat in the shape of an olive, containing a soft pulp, sweet, esculent, and wholesome, and inclosing a hard kernel.
Date palm, or Date tree (Bot.), the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is Ph[oe]nix dactylifera. See Illust.
Date plum (Bot.), the fruit of several species of Diospyros, including the American and Japanese persimmons, and the European lotus ( Diospyros Lotus).
Date shell, or Date fish (Zo["o]l.), a bivalve shell, or its inhabitant, of the genus Pholas, and allied gener
See Pholas.
Wiktionary
n. A palm tree, ''Phoenix dactylifera'', whose fruit is the date.
Usage examples of "date tree".
One day at noon, however, while he was traversing the desert, he saw a naked woman washing herself in a pit of water under a date tree.
He ducked into the entry hall of Credit Suisse where he hid, rather idiotically by his own estimation, behind a potted date tree.
A book of poetry, a jug of wine, a date tree, and--sorry, wrong question.