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Fan Palm :: Fan palm () Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops 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..

Discriminal :: Discriminal (a.) In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm..

Totipalmate :: Totipalmate (a.) Having all four toes united by a web; -- said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves..

Willet :: Willet (n.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); -- called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew..

Palm :: Palm (n.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree.

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed..

Ricinoleate :: Ricinoleate (n.) A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.

Cabbage :: Cabbage (n.) The cabbage palmetto. See below.

Areca :: Areca (n.) A genus of palms, one species of which produces the areca nut, or betel nut, which is chewed in India with the leaf of the Piper Betle and lime..

Oared :: Oared (a.) Totipalmate; -- said of the feet of certain birds. See Illust. of Aves.

Jaggery :: "Jaggery (n.) Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis)..

Sabal :: Sabal (n.) A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.

Tripalmitin :: Tripalmitin (n.) See Palmitin.

Palmaceous :: Palmaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms..

Palmidactyles :: Palmidactyles (n. pl.) A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet..

Palma Christi :: Palma Christi () A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant..

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers..

Zamia :: Zamia (n.) A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See Coontie, and Illust. of Strobile..

Attest :: Attest (v. t.) To give proof of; to manifest; as, the ruins of Palmyra attest its ancient magnificence..

Cycas :: Cycas (n.) A genus of trees, intermediate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago..

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