Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a palindrome; that forms or constitutes a palindrome; that reads the same either forward or backward: as, palindromic verses.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, relating to, or being a palindrome.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.
Examples
“These sites, called palindromic AT-rich repeats (PATRRs) are locations at which DNA bends into fragile shapes called hairpins and cruciform structures which can break and rearrange with DNA from other chromosomes.”
“And so the pattern continues, until the fi fth product is the reverse of itself, known as a palindromic number.”
“Note that not only are the professor's name and title palindromic, but so are all his answers:”
“Nevertheless, you haven’t seen anything anything palindromic, that is until you’ve seen my 100% palindromic story, Mr. Nym Goes Adventuring.”
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » A palindrome is born
“Also piquant is a palindromic riddle in the Egerton MS: "What word is that that changeth not / Though it be turned and made in twain?”
The Guardian: The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review
“• The date of Mubarak's resignation (Letters, 14 February) was also a palindromic prime (11.02.2011).”
“This method of "radio detection and ranging" came to be known by the acronym radar, with the word's palindromic nature echoing the system's operating principle.”
“You'll all know by now that Friday is a red-letter day which bears the unsurpassably perfect palindromic date of 11.11.11 – and for the jackpot bonus buzz, just check your clock or watch at precisely 11 minutes past 11.”
The Guardian: Armistice Day recalls Arthur Collins' imperishable cricketing feat | Frank Keating
“Peter BarnesMilton Keynes, Buckinghamshire• The date of Mubarak's resignation was not a palindromic prime Letters, 18 February: 11022011 = 11 x 1002001.”
“Creating a palindromic six-word memoir is too hard, and anyway I can feel my 500 word limitation breathing hard behind me, as though we're running a 10K together and I'm the pacer.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘palindromic’.
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A Second Helping of Random Palavery
A continuation of my first list, "A Serving of Random Palavery". Like the first, this list contains words that catch my attention, ring happily in my ears, are fun to speak, or are interesting to ...
bouffoir, mossberry, webisode, barquette, brochidodromous, festooned brochid..., eucamptodromy, eucamptodromous, loment, keenings, moss-trooper, mosstrooping and 138 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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wordn't-you-just-know-it
autopolyploid, stimthought, vandanbladderstiddle, word's eye view, ménagerie à trois, technonotice, bluebell, slanticular, ante-jentacular, splunge, turkish room, uxorial and 770 more...
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my words.
ephemeral, ambivalence, symbiosis, ineffable, transcendental, momentous, zeppelin, agoraphobia, planetarium, cleverness, ambilevous, lambent and 67 more...
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hernesheir (adj): of, like, or pertaining to a palindrome;
describing words, phrases, text strings, or other formulations that read the same forwards or backwards, e.g. Hannah, racecar, tit, pap. Dec 30, 2008