Definition of Elaies
||E*læ"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
&?; olive tree.] (Bot.) A genus of palms.
&fist; 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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