Species on this page ( A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :
SYNONYM(S) : Elaeis melanococca Gaertn.
ARABIC : Nakhlet ez zayt.
BURMESE : Si htan, Si ohn.
CHINESE : You zong.
DANISH : Oliepalme.
ENGLISH : African oil palm, Macaw fat, Oil palm, Palm kernel oil.
FINNISH : Öljypalmu.
FRENCH : Palmier à huile, Palmier à huile d'Afrique.
GERMAN : Afrikanische Ölpalme, Ölpalme.
ITALIAN : Palma avoira, Palma da olio, Palma oleaginosa africana.
JAPANESE : Abura yashi.
MALAY : Kelapa sawit, Kelapa sawit Bali.
PORTUGUESE : Caiaué (Brazil), Dendenzeiro, Palmera dendém.
RUSSIAN : Gvineiskaia, Maslichnaia pal'ma, Pal'ma maslichnaia.
SPANISH : Corojo de Guinea, Palma africana, Palma oleaginosa africana, Palmera de aceite.
SWAHILI : Mchikichi, Miwesi, Mjenga.
SWEDISH : Oljepalm.
THAI : Paam nam man.
VIETNAMESE : .
Photographs at the Virtual Palm Encyclopedia, PCSF Inc. USA.
Elaeis
oleifera (Kunth)
Cortés
SYNONYM(S) : Alfonsia oleifera Kunth , Corozo oleifera (Kunth) L. H. Bailey
CHINESE : Mei zhou you zong.
DANISH : Amerikansk oliepalme.
ENGLISH : American oilpalm (USA), American oil palm, Noli palm.
FINNISH : Öljypalmu.
FRENCH : Palmier à huile d'Amérique, Palmier américain à huile.
GERMAN : Amerikanische Ölpalme.
ITALIAN : Palma da olio, Palma noli.
MALAY : Kelapa sawit, Kelapa sawit Amerika, Selatan.
PORTUGUESE : Dendê do Pará, Coqueiro de dendê, Caiaué.
SPANISH : Coquito, Corocito colorado, Corozo, Corozo colorado moriche, Nolé, Nolí, Ujun, Palma brasilera, Palma nolí, Palmiche, Poloponta (Lat. America).
Photographs at the Virtual Palm Encyclopedia, PCSF Inc. USA.
EURODICAUTOM, On-line Technical Dictionary in 12 languages provided by the European Commission < http://eurodic.echo.lu/cgi-bin/edicbin/EuroDicWWW.pl?page=expert > (Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Latin with authority names)
Mabberley D.J. 1997, The Plant-Book : a Portable Dictionary of the Vascular Plants, 2d Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
USDA, ARS, 2000, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Available: www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxdump.pl?elaeis (05 February 2003). (A number of languages, some romanised, Latin with authority names)
Wiersema J. H. & León B. 1999, World Economic Plants : a Standard Reference. CRC Press LLC.
Xie Zongwa & Yu Youqin (Editors), 1996, Materia Medica, Chinese Terminology, Vol. 1, Renminweisheng Publishing House Beijing, China. (Latin with authority names and Chinese-simplified, text in Chinese).
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