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means A tall palm tree cultivated for its sweet, energy-dense fruit, and one of the oldest crops humans have deliberately grown.

from The 'date' part traces back through Old French and Latin 'dactylus' to Greek 'daktylos,' meaning 'finger' — the oblong fruit apparently reminded someone, a very long time ago, of a finger or toe. 'Palm' comes from Latin 'palma,' meaning the palm of the hand, because the tree's spreading fronds looked like splayed fingers. So the name is, charmingly, hand imagery stacked on hand imagery — fingers growing fruit shaped like fingers.