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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Two-thirds of Wilmar’s oil palm plantations are in Indonesia.
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Lionel Lim, Fortune, 18 June 2025
Farmers here have long tended rice paddies but many switched to more lucrative oil palm trees in 2017.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025
That makes algae many times as productive as oil palms, the most oil-rich source of biodiesel now in use.
—Philip T. Pienkos, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
The evidence indicated the site wasn't just small forested area, but a heavily wooded one home to key rainforest trees like oil palms and hunteria.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
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Lionel Lim, Fortune, 18 June 2025
Farmers here have long tended rice paddies but many switched to more lucrative oil palm trees in 2017.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Mar. 2025
That makes algae many times as productive as oil palms, the most oil-rich source of biodiesel now in use.
—Philip T. Pienkos, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2010
The evidence indicated the site wasn't just small forested area, but a heavily wooded one home to key rainforest trees like oil palms and hunteria.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Oil palm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oil%20palm. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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