Coco palm
() See Cocoa. |
Cocoa palm
() A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters |
Doom palm
() A species of palm tree (Hyphaene Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. |
Doum palm
() See Doom palm. |
Fan palm
() Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves |
Grugru palm
() A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. |
Ita palm
() A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber. |
Jagua palm
() A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs. |
Jupati palm
() A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia taedigera), used by the natives for many purposes. |
Palm
(n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. |
Palm
(n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers |
Palm
(n.) A metallic disk, attached to a strap, and worn the palm of the hand, -- used to push the needle through the canvas, in sewing sails, etc. |
Palm
(n.) The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer |
Palm
(n.) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke. |
Palm
(n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae |
Palm
(n.) A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. |
Palm
(n.) Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph |
Palm
(v. t.) To handle. |
Palm
(v. t.) To manipulate with, or conceal in, the palm of the hand |
Palm
(v. t.) To impose by fraud, as by sleight of hand |
Palm Sunday
() The Sunday next before Easter |
Swift
(v. i.) Moving a great distance in a short time |
Swift
(v. i.) Of short continuance |
Swift
(adv.) Swiftly. |
Swift
(n.) The current of a stream. |
Swift
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidae. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely different group allied to the humming birds. |
Swift
(n.) Any one of several species of lizards, as the pine lizard. |
Swift
(n.) The ghost moth. See under Ghost. |
Swift
(n.) A reel, or turning instrument, for winding yarn, thread, etc. |
Swift
(n.) The main card cylinder of a flax-carding machine. |
western fence lizard
swift blue-belly
Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
| swift | a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight |
European swift
Apus apus | common European bird with a shrieking call that nests chiefly about eaves of buildings or on cliffs |
chimney swift
chimney swallow Chateura pelagica | American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys |
tree swift
crested swift | birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
banded palm civet
Hemigalus hardwickii | an East Indian civet |
palm cat
palm civet | spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies |
palm
thenar | the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers |
palmistry
palm reading
chiromancy
chirology | telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand |
decoration
laurel wreath
medal
medallion
palm
ribbon | an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event |
| palm oil | oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm |
| Palm Beach | a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast |
| West Palm Beach | a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach, founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach |
Swift
Jonathan Swift
Dean Swift | an English satirist born in Ireland (-) |
| Swift Gustavus Franklin Swift | United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (-) |
| sago palm Cycas revoluta | dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago |
false sago
fern palm
Cycas circinalis | southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage |
devil's tongue
snake palm
umbrella arum
Amorphophallus rivieri | foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix |
governor's plum
governor plum
Madagascar plum
ramontchi
batoko palm
Flacourtia indica | small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums |
Adam's needle
Adam's needle-and-thread
spoonleaf yucca
needle palm
Yucca filamentosa | yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages |
Palmae
family Palmae
Palmaceae
family Palmaceae
Arecaceae
family Arecaceae
palm family | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves, coextensive with the order Palmales |
palm
palm tree | any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves |
| sago palm | any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago |
| feather palm | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves |
| fan palm | palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves |
coyol
coyol palm
Acrocomia vinifera | tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber |
grugru
gri-gri
grugru palm
macamba
Acrocomia aculeata | tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts |
betel palm
Areca catechu | southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk) |
sugar palm
gomuti
gomuti palm
Arenga pinnata | Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers, yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago |
piassava palm
pissaba palm
Bahia piassava
bahia coquilla
Attalea funifera | Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes |
palmyra
palmyra palm
toddy palm
wine palm lontar
longar palm
Borassus flabellifer | tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar, leaves used for thatching and weaving |
rattan rattan palm
Calamus rotang | climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes |
| fishtail palm | attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage |
wine palm jaggery palm
kitul
kittul
kitul tree
toddy palm Caryota urens | fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula, sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago |
wax palm Ceroxylon andicola
Ceroxylon alpinum | palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles |
coconut coconut palm
coco palm
coco
cocoa palm
coconut tree
Cocos nucifera | tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits, widely planted throughout the tropics |
carnauba
carnauba palm
wax palm Copernicia prunifera
Copernicia cerifera | Brazilian fan palm having an edible root, source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax |
caranday
caranda
caranda palm
wax palm Copernicia australis
Copernicia alba | South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax |
corozo
corozo palm | any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts |
gebang palm
Corypha utan
Corypha gebanga | large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia, leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers |
latanier
latanier palm | fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region |
talipot
talipot palm
Corypha umbraculifera | tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper |
| oil palm | pinnate-leaved palms of the genus Elaeis having dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit and yielding high quality palm oils |
African oil palm
Elaeis guineensis | oil palm of Africa |
American oil palm
Elaeis oleifera | palm of Central and South America |
palm nut
palm kernel | seed of any oil palm |
| cabbage palm Euterpe oleracea | Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young |
| cabbage palm cabbage tree Livistona australis | Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young |
true sago palm
Metroxylon sagu | Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener, Malaya to Fiji |
nipa palm
Nipa fruticans | any creeping semiaquatic feather palm of the genus Nipa found in mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries, its sap is used for a liquor, leaves are used for thatch, fruit has edible seeds |