Elais
Elais , noun
[New Latin, from Greek {not transcribed} olive tree.]
(Botany) A genus of palms.
Elais 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.
Also: Elaeis