oil palm
noun
: an African pinnate-leaved palm (Elaeis guineensis) cultivated for its clustered fruit whose flesh and seeds yield oil
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Then, in the early 1970s and the decades after, many forests were logged and then cleared for palm oil plantations, until more than one-fifth of the total area of Sabah was planted with oil palms, according to a 2022 study published in the journal Land Use Policy.
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Mihir Zaveri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
Between the towns there are rice fields, limestone outcroppings, and repeat patterns of oil palms that stretch as far as the eye can see.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024
Macaques bash open oil palm nuts by placing them on a flat stone and striking their shell with another stone.
—Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
But environmental benefits accrue only if existing cropland is converted to oil palms.
—Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
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Mihir Zaveri, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2025
Between the towns there are rice fields, limestone outcroppings, and repeat patterns of oil palms that stretch as far as the eye can see.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024
Macaques bash open oil palm nuts by placing them on a flat stone and striking their shell with another stone.
—Zach Zorich, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
But environmental benefits accrue only if existing cropland is converted to oil palms.
—Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
See All Example Sentences for oil palm
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“Oil palm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20palm. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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