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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Elaeis n : oil palms [syn: {Elaeis}, {genus Elaeis}]
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