palm : Idioms & Phrases

• noun oil palm of Africa
  Elaeis guineensis.
  

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• noun palm of Central and South America
  Elaeis oleifera.
  

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• noun tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
  Orbignya phalerata; Orbignya spesiosa; Orbignya martiana; coco de macao; babassu.
  

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• noun small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
  bamboo palm; fern rhapis; Rhapis excelsa.
  
• noun a palm of the genus Raffia
  Raffia vinifera.
  

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• noun an East Indian civet
  Hemigalus hardwickii.
  

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• noun small shrubby tree of Madagascar cultivated in tropical regions as a hedge plant and for its deep red acid fruits resembling small plums
  Flacourtia indica; governor's plum; ramontchi; Madagascar plum; governor plum.
  

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• noun southeastern Asian palm bearing betel nuts (scarlet or orange single-seeded fruit with a fibrous husk)
  Areca catechu.
  

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• noun small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto
  broom palm; thatch tree; silver thatch; Thrinax parviflora.
  

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• noun low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds
  cabbage palmetto; Sabal palmetto.
  
• noun West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
  Roystonea oleracea.
  
• noun Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young
  cabbage tree; Livistona australis.
  
• noun Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young
  Euterpe oleracea.
  

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• a name given to palms having a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the Sabal Palmetto of the United States, and the Euterpe oleracea and Oreodoxa oleracea of the West Indies.

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• noun South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax
  Copernicia australis; caranda palm; Copernicia alba; caranda; caranday.
  

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• noun Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax
  carnauba; Copernicia prunifera; Copernicia cerifera; carnauba palm.
  

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• noun tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
  coconut; coco palm; Cocos nucifera; coconut tree; coco; cocoa palm.
  

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Co"co, Co"co palm noun (Also<

• Coco
• Coco palm

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1. See Cocoa.

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• noun tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
  coconut; coco palm; Cocos nucifera; coconut tree; coco; cocoa palm.
  

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Co"coa, Co"coa palm` noun (Also<

• Cocoa
• Cocoa palm

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Etymology

Sp. & Pg. coco cocoanut, in Sp. also, cocoa palm. The Portuguese name is said to have been given from the monkeylike face at the base of the nut, fr. Pg. coco a bugbear, an ugly mask to frighten children. Cf., however, Gr. the cocoa palm and its fruit, , , a kind of Egyptian palm.

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1. (Bot.) 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; the cocoanut tree.

Co"coa noun

Etymology

Corrupted fr. cacao.

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1. A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, and used in making, a beverage; also the beverage made from cocoa or cocoa shells.

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• noun tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
  coconut; coco palm; Cocos nucifera; coconut tree; coco; cocoa palm.
  

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• noun tropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory
  cohune; Orbignya cohune.
  

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• noun any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts
  corozo.
  

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• noun tropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber
  coyol; Acrocomia vinifera.
  

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• noun tall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit
  Phoenix dactylifera.
  

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• (Bot.), the genus of palms which bear dates, of which common species is Phoenix dactylifera. See Illust.

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Doom" palm`

Etymology

Ar. daum, dum: cf. F. doume.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. Written also doum palm.

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Doum" palm`

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1. See Doom palm.

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• noun palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves
  

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Fan" palm`

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1. (Bot.) Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts.

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• noun palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves
  

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• noun southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage
  false sago; Cycas circinalis.
  

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• noun attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage
  

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• noun large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers
  Corypha utan; Corypha gebanga.
  

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• noun Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
  gomuti palm; Arenga pinnata; gomuti.
  

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• verb make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
  corrupt; buy; bribe.
  
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• noun tropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts
  Acrocomia aculeata; gri-gri; grugru; macamba.
  

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Gru"gru palm"

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1. (Bot.) A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. Written also grigri palm.

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High"-palmed` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.

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I"ta palm`

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1. (Bot.) 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.

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• noun a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts
  ivory palm; Phytelephas macrocarpa; ivory plant.
  

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• (Bot.), the palm tree which produces ivory nuts.

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• noun a stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts
  ivory palm; Phytelephas macrocarpa; ivory plant.
  

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• noun fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
  jaggery palm; kittul; Caryota urens; kitul tree; kitul; toddy palm.
  

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Ja"gua palm`

Etymology

Sp. jagua the fruit of the jagua palm.

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs.

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• noun a tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes
  Raffia taedigera; jupati; jupaty.
  

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Ju`pa*ti" palm`

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1. (Bot.) A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia tædigera), used by the natives for many purposes.

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• noun small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba
  Thrinax keyensis; Thrinax microcarpa; silvertop palmetto; Thrinax morrisii; silver thatch.
  

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• noun any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants
  

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• noun fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region
  latanier.
  

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• noun 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
  lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; toddy palm.
  

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• noun small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
  bamboo palm; fern rhapis; Rhapis excelsa.
  

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• (Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia (Molucella lævis), having a curious cup-shaped calyx.

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• noun yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages
  Adam's needle-and-thread; spoonleaf yucca; Adam's needle; Yucca filamentosa.
  

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• noun 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
  Nipa fruticans.
  

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• noun pinnate-leaved palms of the genus Elaeis having dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit and yielding high quality palm oils
  

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• (Bot.), a palm tree whose fruit furnishes oil, esp. Elæis Guineensis. See Elæis.

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• the oil palm.

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• noun a resort town in southeast Florida on an island on the Atlantic coast
  

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• the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food.

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• noun spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies
  palm cat.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common paradoxure.

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• noun spotted or striped arboreal civet of southeast Asia and East Indies
  palm cat.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the purse crab.

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• noun 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
  family Palmae; Palmae; Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; Palmaceae; family Palmaceae.
  

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• noun seed of any oil palm
  palm kernel.
  

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• noun seed of any oil palm
  palm kernel.
  

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• verb sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
  foist off; fob off.
  

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• noun oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm
  

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• a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm (Elæis Guineensis), and used in the manufacture of soap and candles. See Elæis.

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• noun telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand
  palmistry; chiromancy; chirology.
  

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• noun Sunday before Easter
  

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Palm" Sun`day

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1. (Eccl.) The Sunday next before Easter; -- so called in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

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• (Zoöl.), a small swift (Cypselus Btassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm.

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• . Same as Palm wine.

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• noun any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
  palm.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of mumerous species of very large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larvæ bore into palm trees, and are called palm borers, and grugru worms. They are considered excellent food.

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• the sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the wild date palm (Phoenix sylvestrix), the palmyra, and the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The larva of a palm weevil . (b) A centipede.

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• adjective satellite of a leaf shape; having leaflets or lobes radiating from a common point
  palmate.
  

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• noun 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
  lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; toddy palm.
  

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• noun Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes
  Bahia piassava; Attalea funifera; piassava palm; bahia coquilla.
  

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• noun Brazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes
  Bahia piassava; Attalea funifera; piassava palm; bahia coquilla.
  

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• noun a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks
  Raffia ruffia; Raffia farinifera.
  

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• (Bot.), a Brazilian palm tree (Iriartea exorhiza) which has strong aërial roots like a screw pine. The roots have a hard, rough surface, and are used by the natives for graters and rasps, whence the common name.

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• noun climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes
  rattan; Calamus rotang.
  

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• noun tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba
  Roystonea regia.
  

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• (Bot.), a magnificent West Indian palm tree (Oreodoxa regia), lately discovered also in Florida.

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• noun any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago
  
• noun dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago
  Cycas revoluta.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) A palm tree which yields sago . (b) A species of Cycas (Cycas revoluta).

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• noun Chinese lady palm with more slender stems and finer sheath fibers than Rhapis excelsa
  Rhapis humilis; reed rhapis.
  

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• noun 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
  umbrella arum; Amorphophallus rivieri; devil's tongue.
  

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• noun Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
  gomuti palm; Arenga pinnata; gomuti.
  

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• noun tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper
  Corypha umbraculifera; talipot.
  

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• noun small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto
  broom palm; thatch tree; silver thatch; Thrinax parviflora.
  

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• noun fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
  jaggery palm; kittul; Caryota urens; kitul tree; kitul; toddy palm.
  
• noun 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
  lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; toddy palm.
  

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• noun Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji
  Metroxylon sagu.
  

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• noun South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax
  Copernicia australis; caranda palm; Copernicia alba; caranda; caranday.
  
• noun Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax
  carnauba; Copernicia prunifera; Copernicia cerifera; carnauba palm.
  
• noun palm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles
  Ceroxylon alpinum; Ceroxylon andicola.
  

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• . (Bot.) (a) A species of palm (Ceroxylon Andicola) native of the Andes, the stem of which is covered with a secretion, consisting of two thirds resin and one third wax, which, when melted with a third of fat, makes excellent candles. (b) A Brazilian tree (Copernicia cerifera) the young leaves of which are covered with a useful waxy secretion.

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• noun a town in southeast Florida on the mainland opposite Palm Beach; founded as a commercial center for Palm Beach
  

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• noun fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
  jaggery palm; kittul; Caryota urens; kitul tree; kitul; toddy palm.
  
• noun 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
  lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; toddy palm.
  

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