date2
• noun 1 a sweet, dark brown, oval fruit with a hard stone, usually eaten dried. 2 (also date palm) a tall palm tree which bears this fruit, native to western Asia and North Africa. — ORIGIN Greek daktulos ‘finger’ (because of the finger-like shape of the tree’s leaves).
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