bottle palm

bottle palm
noun
: any of several palms (as Colpothrinax wrightii of Cuba and Hyophorbe amaricaulis of the Mascarene islands in the Indian ocean) that have trunks marked by a swelling shaped like a bottle — called also barrel palm

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