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 |
Crop-tailed (a.) Having the tail cropped. |
Daggle-tailed (a.) Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth |
Dag-tailed (a.) Daggle-tailed |
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. |
Draggle-tailed (a.) Untidy |
Fan palm () Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves |
Fan-tailed (a.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail |
Fork (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved |
Fork (n.) Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity |
Fork (n.) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided |
Fork (n.) The place where a division or a union occurs |
Fork (n.) The gibbet. |
Fork (v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn. |
Fork (v. i.) To divide into two or more branches |
Fork (v. t.) To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay |
Fork-tailed (a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones |
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 |
Pin-tailed (a.) Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest |
Racket-tailed (a.) Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. |
Rat-tailed (a.) Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. |
Red-tailed (a.) Having a red tail. |
Ring-tailed (a.) Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. |
Ruby-tailed (a.) Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. |
Scissors-tailed (a.) Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones. |
Spine-tailed (a.) Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. |
Stiff-tailed (a.) Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. |
Stump-tailed (a.) Having a short, thick tail. |
Swallow-tailed (a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow |
Swallow-tailed (a.) United by dovetailing |
Swift (v. i.) Moving a great distance in a short time |
Swift (v. i.) Of short continuance |
Swift (adv.) Swiftly. |
branching ramification fork forking | the act of branching out or dividing into branches |
green-tailed towhee Chlorura chlorura | towhee of the Rocky Mountains |
redtail red-tailed hawk Buteo jamaicensis | dark brown American hawk species having a reddish-brown tail |
swallow-tailed kite swallow-tailed hawk Elanoides forficatus | graceful North American black-and-white kite |
white-tailed kite Elanus leucurus | grey-and-white American kite of warm and tropical regions |
ern erne grey sea eagle gray sea eagle European sea eagle white-tailed sea eagle Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
tailed frog bell toad ribbed toad tailed toad Ascaphus trui | western North American frog with a taillike copulatory organ |
zebra-tailed lizard gridiron-tailed lizard Callisaurus draconoides | swift lizard with long black-banded tail and long legs, of deserts of United States and Mexico |
western fence lizard swift blue-belly Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
sharp-tailed grouse sprigtail sprig tail Pedioecetes phasianellus | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America |
band-tailed pigeon band-tail pigeon bandtail Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
pin-tailed sandgrouse pin-tailed grouse Pterocles alchata | sandgrouse of Europe and Africa having elongated middle tail feathers |
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 |
pintail pin-tailed duck Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
nail-tailed wallaby nail-tailed kangaroo | small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail |
brush-tailed phalanger Trichosurus vulpecula | bushy-tailed phalanger |
brewer's mole hair-tailed mole Parascalops breweri | mole of eastern North America |
short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
banded palm civet Hemigalus hardwickii | an East Indian civet |
palm cat palm civet | spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies |
slender-tailed meerkat Suricata suricatta | a meerkat with a thin and elongated tail |
freetail free-tailed bat freetailed bat | small swift insectivorous bat with leathery ears and a long tail, common in warm regions |
white-tailed jackrabbit whitetail jackrabbit Lepus townsendi | largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States, brownish-grey in summer and pale grey in winter, tail nearly always all white |
round-tailed muskrat Florida water rat Neofiber alleni | of Florida wetlands |
brush-tailed porcupine brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
long-tailed porcupine Trichys lipura | porcupine of Borneo and Sumatra having short spines and a long tail |
Virginia deer white tail whitetail white-tailed deer whitetail deer Odocoileus Virginianus | common North American deer, tail has a white underside |
black-tailed deer blacktail deer blacktail Odocoileus hemionus columbianus | mule deer of western Rocky Mountains |
longtail weasel long-tailed weasel Mustela frenata | the common American weasel distinguished by large size and black-tipped tail |
pentail pen-tail pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third, of Malaysia |
Madagascar cat ring-tailed lemur Lemur catta | small lemur having its tail barred with black |
a bassarisk cacomistle cacomixle coon cat raccoon fox ringtail ring-tailed cat civet cat miner's cat Bassariscus astutus | raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings |
carving fork | a large fork used in carving cooked meat |
fork | cutlery used for serving and eating food |
fork | an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging, has a handle and metal prongs |
four-tailed bandage | a bandage consisting of a strip of cloth split in two on both ends, the central part is placed under the chin to restrict motion of the mandible and the tails are tied over the top of the head |
salad fork | a fork intended for eating salads |
swallow-tailed coat swallowtail morning coat | a man's full-dress jacket with two long tapering tails at the back |
toasting fork | long-handled fork for cooking or toasting frankfurters or bread etc. (especially over an open fire) |
tuning fork | a metal implement with two prongs that gives a fixed tone when struck, used to tune musical instruments |
palm thenar | the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers |
crotch fork | the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk |
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 |