Word Finder - palms

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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.

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The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the fingers.

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• loof

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The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.

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A linear measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; used in measuring a horse's height.

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(sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc.

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The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm of the hand with its protruding fingers.

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The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.

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To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.

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To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.

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John palmed the ball.

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To move something with the palm of the hand.

She lifted her palms in resignation.

Claudette turned her palms to the air.

Carmen lifted her palms again.

Katie shrugged and turned her palms up in resignation.

Her palms were sweating at the memories the beach house held.

When Carmen glanced at Felipa, she rolled her eyes and turned her palms up in submission.

Her palms were sweaty, her nerves fried.

She wiped sweaty palms on her jeans and swallowed a lump in her throat.

She sighed and lifted her palms in surrender.

He shrugged and turned his palms up.

The remains of palms (Sabctl and Nipa) as well as of other large-leaved Monocotyledons are preserved.

She stared at Darcie, clenching her hands so tight that her fingernails bit into her palms.

Once Dean was standing at the podium and he'd controlled the shake in his knees and hidden the sweat on his palms, he felt he didn't do badly.

She didn't move away or object when he allowed his palms to skim her curves, tracing down her sides to her hips then around to her tight bottom.

She pulled up a chair and sat beside him, resting chin in palms.

Her hand dropped to her side, fingernails digging into the meat of her palms.

Her heart thudded, her palms damp.

Jenn rubbed her eyes with the heels of her palms.

She pressed the meat of her palms to her eyes and willed herself not to cry.

They trembled in his large palms.

He pushed up her t-shirt, his warm palms branding her hips and stomach.

Farther to the south is the large Jardin d'Essai, containing five avenues of palms, planes, bamboos and magnolias.

The vegetation is almost tropically luxuriant - palms, wild pineapples, and ferns growing profusely, and the valleys being filled with wild beans and patches of taro.

Maceio is attractively situated in the midst of large plantations of coco-nut and dende palms, though the broad sandy beach in front and the open sun-burned plain behind give a barren character to its surroundings.

There are considerable forests of oil palms, rubber trees and vines, and timber and dyewood trees.

The great peculiarity of Andaman flora is that, with the exception of the Cocos islands, no cocoanut palms are found in the archipelago.

In the roots of some palms and orchids a polystelic structure obtains.

Thus in the Mediterranean region the large groups of palms, figs, myrtles and laurels are each only represented by single surviving species.

Trachycar pus and Rhapis are characteristic palms, and Cycadeae are represented by Cycas.

Amongst palms the Corypheae are represented by Sabal and Thrinax, and there is a solitary Za,nza amongst Cycads.

Amongst palms Washinglonia, Brahea and Erythea (all Corypheac) replace the eastern genera.

Amongst palms Areceae and Calameae are preponderant.

The Amazon basin is the richest area in the world in palms, of which the Cocoineae are confined to South America, except the coco-nut, which has perhaps spread thence into Polynesia and eastward.

South Africa has only two palms (Phoenix and Hyphaene).

Palms are poorly represented in the sub-region and are of an Indo-Malayan type.

Palms as usual are few and not nearly related.

Indigenous palms grow in the valleys of the Sierra Jose Ignacio, also to some extent in the departments of Minas, Maldonado and Paysandu.

The most striking trees in the forest region are, in the basin of the Cavalla, the giant Funtumia elastica, which grows to an altitude of 200 ft.; various kinds of Parinarium, Oldfieldia and Khaya; the bombax or cotton tree, giant dracaenas, many kinds of fig; Borassus palms, oil palms, the climbing Calamus palms, and on the coast the coconut.

Bamboos and palms, with Pandanus and Dracaena, are also abundant.

The arboreous forms which least require the humid and equable heat of the more truly tropical and equatorial climates, and are best able to resist the high temperatures and excessive drought of the northern Indian hot months from April to June, are certain Leguminosae, Bauhinia, Acacia, Butea and Dalbergia, Bombax, Shorea, Nauclea, Lagerstroemia, and Bignonia, a few bamboos and palms, with others which extend far beyond the tropic, and give a tropical aspect to the forest to the extreme northern border of the Indian plain.

The higher mountains rise abruptly from the plains; on their slopes, clothed below almost exclusively with the more tropical forms, a vegetation of a warm temperate character, chiefly evergreen, soon begins to prevail, comprising Magnoliaceae, Ternstroemiaceae, subtropical Rosaceae, rhododendron, oak, Ilex, Symplocos, Lauraceae, Pinus longifolia, with mountain forms of truly tropical orders, palms, Pandanus, Musa, Vitis, Vernonia, and many others.

Plantains, tree-ferns, bamboos, several Calami, and other palms, and Pandanus, are abundant at the lower levels.

The more common palms are Cocos, Phoenix and Borassus, supplying cocoa-nut and toddy.

The more common plants in the most characteristic part of this region in southern Arabia are Capparidaceae, Euphorbiaceae, and a few Leguminosae, a Reseda and Dipterygium; palms, Polygonaceae, ferns, and other cryptogams, are rare.

Schultens (Vita Sal., Index geogr.) cites Tatmur as a variant of the Arabic name; this might mean " abounding in palms " (from the root tamar); otherwise Tadmor may have been originally an Assyrian name.

They will hold their arms over their heads until the muscles atrophy, will keep their fists clenched till the nails grow through the palms, will lie on beds of nails, cut and stab themselves, drag, week after week, enormous chains loaded with masses of iron, or hang themselves before a fire near enough to scorch.

An ascent made by Dr Honda of the imperial university of Japan showed that, up to a height of 6000 ft., the mountain is clothed with primeval forests of palms, banyans, cork trees, camphor trees, tree ferns, interlacing creepers and dense thickets of rattan or stretches of grass higher than a man's stature.

The vegetation of the island is characterized by tropical luxuriance, - the moutainous regions being clad with dense forest, in which various species of palms, the camphor-tree (Laurus Camplaora), and the aloe are conspicuous.

There are several species of palms, flowering trees, trees with beautifully coloured foliage, tree ferns, resinous trees and trees bearing tropical fruits.

The walls are in many places coated with stucco adorned with frescoes, including palms, doves, labara and other Christian symbols.