Word Finder - palm

definition

Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.

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• palm tree

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A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.

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(by extension) Triumph; victory.

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Any of 23 awards that can be earned after obtaining the Eagle Scout rank, but generally only before turning 18 years old.

He gazed at it in the palm of his hand.

Is not the hand a spreading palm leaf with its lobes and veins?

He looked at the emerald in his palm.

She rested her chin on her palm, elbow on the table, and stared at him.

Connor stared at two deep gashes in his palm.

She focused on mixing dish soap and lemon juice in her palm.

Fingers caressed her hand gently and then slipped over her palm.

A small hourglass with black sand was in his palm.

The machete felt heavy in her sweating palm.

He placed something small in her palm.

She gasped and pulled away, but not before his thumb grazed her calloused palm.

The Original Other looked at her and raised his hand, lightening forming in his palm.

Among the plants the wild banana, pepper, orange and mangosteen, rhododendron, epiphytic orchids and the palm; among mammals the bats and rats; among birds the cassowary and rifle birds; and among reptiles the crocodile and tree snakes, characterize this element.

With the date palm it is believed to have furnished the rafters for the buildings of Nineveh.

His fingers caressed her palm warmly and then he brushed the hair away from her cheek.

She traced her fingertips over his wide palm.

She took his hand and kissed his palm.

The phenomenon is, in fact, very like that of the fermentation of palm wine and pulque, where the juices are obtained from artificial cuts.

There were three sets of numbers written in green ink on his palm.

Alex brought one hand up toward his mouth and brought it down to an upturned palm.

He reached into his pocket and withdrew a small black pouch, pouring its contents—two green gems holding the dust of human souls—into his palm.

There are basically two main types of palm trees.

He touched her cheek with a roughened palm.

Rubber and palm oil are natural forest products of the coastal zone.

Date palm meal is obtained from the stem of a small species, Phoenix farinifera, growing in the hill country of southern India.

The milk is then carefully dried by turning the mould round and round in the smoke produced by burning wood mixed with certain oily palm nuts; those of A ttalea excelsa are considered best, the smoke being confined within certain limits by the narrowness of the neck of the pot in which the nuts are heated.

This is then poured into the hollowed-out trunk of a tree, where it is allowed to stand covered with palm leaves for about a fortnight.

All the islands are richly clothed with palm trees and flowering underwood.

In commercial importance Iloilo ranks next to Manila among Philippine cities; it has manufactures of pina, jusi, coconut oil, lime, vinegar and various articles made from palm wood.

The coast and tide-water rivers are fringed with mangrove, and the sandy plain reaching back to the margin of the inland plateau is generally bare of vegetation, though the carnahuba palm (Copernicia cerifera) and some species of low-growing trees are to be found in many places.

The sea-coast, bays and tide-water rivers are still fringed with mangrove, and on the sandy shores above Cape Frio grow large numbers of the exotic cocoa-nut palm.

The fruit of the pupunha or peach palm (Guilielma speciosa) is an important food among the Indians of the Amazon valley, where the tree was cultivated by them long before the discovery of America.

The assai (Euterpe oleracea) is another highly-prized palm because of a beverage made from its fruit along the lower Amazon.

A closely-related species or variety (Euterpe edulis) is the well-known palmito or cabbage palm found over the greater part of Brazil, whose terminal phylophore is cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

Another highly useful palm is the carnauba or carnahuba (Copernicia cerifera) which supplies fruit, medullary meal, food for cattle, boards and timber, fibre, wax and medicine.

Vegetable wax, which is an excellent substitute for beeswax, is a product of the carnahuha palm (Copernicia cerifera), and is an important export from Ceara.

Palm, or piassava fibre, derived from the piassava palm, is used in the manufacture of brooms, brushes, &c. It is found as far south as southern Bahia, and the export could be very largely increased.

It includes a herbarium and palm house, with an extensive range of hot-houses, a museum of economic botany, a lecture-room and other requisites for the study of botany.

But the most striking of the coast-belt flora are the tropical forms - the palm, mangrove, wild banana (Strelitzia augusta), tree-ferns, tree euphorbia, candelabra spurge and Caput medusae.

Palms grow everywhere; among them the coco-nut palm (Cocos nucifera) is the most prominent.

Hemp and flax had an importance, lost between 1827 and 1849, but responsible in 1792 for fairs on Saturday and Monday before Palm Sunday.

One is an inscription in the rocky valley of Hammamat, through which the desert road from the Red Sea to the valley of Egypt opens on the green fields and palm groves of the river Nile near Coptos..

Theodulf was the author of at least part of the hymn for Palm Sunday, the Gloria laws.

In 1910 the export of palm kernels was 6,141 tons, of palm oil 2,160 tons; in 1916 the figures were 22,391 tons and 3,852 tons respectively.

From 1914 onward copper and palm kernels and oil were the chief exports.

Apart from the sugar-cane and the beet, which are dealt with in detail below, a brief reference need only be made here to maple sugar, palm sugar and sorghum sugar.

Hanifa is its principal watercourse; its course is marked by an almost continuous series of palm groves and settlements, among which Deraiya the former, and Riad the present, capital of the Ibn Saud kingdom are the most extensive.

Among fruit trees the vine, apricot, peach, apple, quince, fig and banana are cultivated in the highlands, and in the lower country the date palm flourishes, particularly throughout the central zone of Arabia, in Hejaz, Nejd and El Hasa, where it is the prime article of food.

The stony plains which cover so large a part of the country are often covered with acacia jungle, and in the dry water-courses a kind of wild palm, the dom, abounds, from the leaves of which baskets and mats are woven.

A large part of the surface is covered with virgin forest, consisting of screw-pines, palm trees, tree ferns, canariums, &c. The fauna is altogether Papuan.