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heart of palm

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees, especially the peach palm (Bactris gasipaes), which is often grown for the purpose.

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25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: جُمَّار (jummār) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Arabic: قَُِلْب (qalb, qilb, qulb) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Catalan: cor de palmera — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Cebuano: ubod — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Chinese Mandarin: 棕櫚心 /棕榈心 (zōng lǘ xīn) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Finnish: palmunydin — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • French: palmite — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Galician: palmito — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • German: Palmherz — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Hebrew: לב דקל (lev dékel) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Indonesian: umbut — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Irish: cabáiste pailme — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Italian: palmito — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Japanese: ハート・オブ・パーム (hāto obu pāmu) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Japanese: パルミット (parumitto) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Javanese: ꦥꦺꦴꦤ꧀ꦝꦺꦴꦃ (pondhoh) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Korean: 야자심 (yajasim) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Lutuv: canungbachuv — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Malay: umbut — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Portuguese: palmito — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Russian: сердцеви́на па́льмы (serdcevína pálʹmy) — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Spanish: palmito — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Swedish: palmhjärta — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Tagalog: ubod — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees
  • Vietnamese: củ hủ dừa — a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees