E*lae"is (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. olive tree.] Bot.
A genus of palms.
⇒ Elaeis Guineensis, the African oil palm, is a tree twenty or thirty feet high, with immense pinnate leaves and large masses of fruit. The berries are rather larger than olives, and when boiled in water yield the orange-red palm oil.
© Webster 1913.