Definition of "date tree" []

• A palm tree, Phoenix dactylifera, whose fruit is the date. (noun)

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• "So he said to himself, This pigeon-pair eateth of the fruit of the date tree and I have no means of getting at it; but needs must I find some fashion of tricking them."
• "“If ye do not believe me,” said Bukhayt, “let us enter the tomb and I will rouse the rat for you; for I doubt not but that, when he saw the light and us making for the place, he ran up the date tree and hid there for fear of us.”"