oil palm
noun
: an African pinnate-leaved palm (Elaeis guineensis) cultivated for its clustered fruit whose flesh and seeds yield oil
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The tigers' habitats are shrinking because of oil palm, coffee and acacia plantations. 
Kelly Murray, CNN, 9 July 2022 Scientists and conservationists hope the discovery will help protect Bornean rainforests and, ideally, slow their destruction to make room for oil palm plantations. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022 Chimpanzees were given a choice of coula nuts and oil palm nuts. Daryl Perry, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022 Orangutans are critically endangered because of habitat loss driven by logging and oil palm plantations. Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2022 But large industries producing crude oil, rice, and oil palm have displaced many ranches, disrupting the heritage of local llaneros, or people of the plains. Nathalia Angarita, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2022 Diana Chalil, founder of the Consortium Studies of Smallholder Palm Oil in Indonesia, added that future deforestation could also be prevented by helping smallholder growers to increase the yield of their existing oil palm crop. James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022 In Borneo, for instance, oil palm cultivation has accounted for more than half of all deforestation over the past two decades. James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022 In the past decade, some in the Southeast Asian nation have gone to great lengths to counter the scientific conclusion that its oil palm industry is releasing huge amounts of carbon. Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021 See More
Kelly Murray, CNN, 9 July 2022 Scientists and conservationists hope the discovery will help protect Bornean rainforests and, ideally, slow their destruction to make room for oil palm plantations. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2022 Chimpanzees were given a choice of coula nuts and oil palm nuts. Daryl Perry, USA TODAY, 27 June 2022 Orangutans are critically endangered because of habitat loss driven by logging and oil palm plantations. Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2022 But large industries producing crude oil, rice, and oil palm have displaced many ranches, disrupting the heritage of local llaneros, or people of the plains. Nathalia Angarita, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2022 Diana Chalil, founder of the Consortium Studies of Smallholder Palm Oil in Indonesia, added that future deforestation could also be prevented by helping smallholder growers to increase the yield of their existing oil palm crop. James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022 In Borneo, for instance, oil palm cultivation has accounted for more than half of all deforestation over the past two decades. James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022 In the past decade, some in the Southeast Asian nation have gone to great lengths to counter the scientific conclusion that its oil palm industry is releasing huge amounts of carbon. Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1850, in the meaning defined above