palm

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  1. noun The inner surface of the hand that extends from the wrist to the base of the fingers.
  2. noun The similar part of the forefoot of a quadruped.
  3. noun A unit of length equal to either the width or the length of the hand.
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  • Areca palm is a plant which removes CO2 and converts it into oxygen. —  Kamal Meattle on how to grow fresh air
  • But, if the palm is to be awarded to any, June 26th, 1900, perhaps has the first claim. —  A Mind That Found Itself
  • Position this glove so that the thumb points to your left and the palm is away from you. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 01 - July 1999
  • Resting on his palm was a tarnished silver coin imprinted with the image of a snow leopard. —  Witch Gate.htm
  • Lying in his palm was a small cluster of fine threads, matted and soaked with spray. —  The Wheel of Darkness by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
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  1. Middle English paume, from Old French, from Latin palma, palm tree, palm of the hand; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old English and from Old French palme, both from Latin palma, palm of the hand, palm tree (from the shape of the tree's fronds); see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also paum; from Middle English palme, paume, pawme, pame, the palm of the hand, also palm-play, from Old French palme, paulme, paume, the palm of the hand, a ball, tennis (palm-play), French paume, the palm of the hand, tennis (jeu de paume), = Spanish Portuguese Italian palma, from Latin palma, feminine, the palm of the hand, a hand's breadth, etc., also palmus, masculine, = Greek παλάμη, the palm of the hand, = Anglo-Saxon folm (=Old High German folma), the palm of the hand, the hand, later ult. English fumble, q.v. Hence ult. palm.
  2. from palm, n.
  3. from Middle English palme, from Anglo-Saxon palm= Old Saxon palma = Dutch palm = Middle Low German palme = Old High German palma, Middle High German G. palme = Icelandic pālmr = Swedish palm = Danish palme = French palme = Spanish Portuguese Italian palma, from Latin palma, a palm-tree, palm-branch, the topmost branch, any branch, a palm-branch as a symbol of victory, also the fruit of the palm, a date, also the name of several other plants; so called from the resemblance of the leaves of the palm-tree to the outspred hand; from palma, the palm of the hand: see palm. The Greek name of the date-palm was φοῑνιξ: see phenix
 

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