Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of palm, Hyphæne Thebaica, remarkable, like other species of the genus, for having a repeatedly branched stem, each branch terminating in a tuft of large fan-shaped leaves.
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Examples
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All the large trees have disappeared with the doom-palm.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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The village of Gusumana is situated on a hill, overlooking a steep broad valley, full of the doom-palm.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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Amongst the trees to-day appeared most conspicuously the doom-palm.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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Kakibarai to Gordo the country is covered with the doom-palm.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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This route is usually reckoned at fifteen days 'journey: trees are abundant on all the route, especially the doom-palm.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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The country is very fine and park-like, and were it not for the doom-palm, would be more like some of the best parts of Europe than Africa is supposed to be.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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I made the acquaintance of the taste of the doom-palm, in a dish of pastry seasoned by it.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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The salt is all tied up in small bales or bundles, the outward wrapper being matting or platting of strips of the leaves of the doom-palm, called by the people _kabba_.
Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government James Richardson 1828
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