Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling a palm tree or some aspect of one.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective resembling a palm tree

Etymologies

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palm +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Then he went to the Mozart Hotel across the street and commandeered several plastic planters with feathery, palmlike plants.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Then he went to the Mozart Hotel across the street and commandeered several plastic planters with feathery, palmlike plants.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • The hut had been built among a sparse grove of lanky, palmlike trees.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • The hut had been built among a sparse grove of lanky, palmlike trees.

    Bleeding Violet Dia Reeves 2010

  • That day, neither of them had commented on the bruise's perfect palmlike shape.

    Alone Gardner, Lisa 2005

  • The garden behind the table where the woman sat was small, four yards wide and a dozen long, bordered by brick-edged flower boxes filled with red and pink blooms, and containing several small palmlike trees.

    The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • Sometimes we saw brilliant red or blue flowers, or masses of scarlet berries on a queer palmlike tree, or an array of great white blossoms on a much larger tree.

    IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay 1914

  • Dotted over the face of the valley were little clusters of palmlike trees -- three or four together as a rule.

    At the Earth's Core Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Sieboldii_ (properly _Fatsia Japonica_ and _F. papyrifera), _ as it is sometimes called, and the variety _variegata, _ with large, palmlike leaves, are grown for their tropical appearance.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • These gymnosperms, related to the pines and spruces in structure and fruiting, but palmlike in their foliage, and uncoiling their long leaves after the manner of ferns, culminated in the Jurassic.

    The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900

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