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Webster 1913 Edition
Elaeis
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E-læ′is
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] olive tree.]
(Bot.)
A genus of palms.
☞ Elæis 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 olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil.