doum palm

• dom palm, doom palm, dum palm

From Arabic دوم (dawm) + palm.

doum palm (plural doum palms)

1. A palm tree of species Hyphaene thebaica, with edible oval fruit, native to northern Africa and countries of the Levant.
   • 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 18:

     The country to the east of Derudeb [Sudan] was bleached and sere, and there were long grey cliffs and dom palms growing in the wadis.

• doum, gingerbread palm, gingerbread tree

• Hyphaene thebaica on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hyphaene thebaica on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Hyphaene thebaica on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons