Dictionary of Gems and Gemology

2009 Edition
| Editors: Mohsen Manutchehr-Danai

doom palm

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72816-0_6738
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a variety of vegetable palm nuts ivory used as imitation of ivory are the hard nuts of certain palm tree of Hyphaene thebaica found in north and central Africa. Also spelled  doum palm.
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