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  • noun Common name for a tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.

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

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Examples

  • And you're seeing that palm tree, that sable palm tree, that is -- that almost a good part of it is already underwater.

    CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2008 2008

  • Eddie Palmieri slid into a booth at the Copacabana, next to a column resembling a plaster cast of a palm tree.

    The Power of the Patriarch Larry Blumenfeld 2011

  • Kerzner teamed with Istithmar to open Atlantis The Palm in 2008 on Dubai's man-made Palm Jumeirah island, which is fashioned to look like a palm tree branching out into the sea.

    Kerzner Weighs Atlantis Dubai Sale Kris Hudson 2011

  • And with that, the chopper hit something—a palm tree?

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Reuters An aerial view of the Atlantis The Palm on Dubai's man-made Palm Jumeirah island, which is fashioned to look like a palm tree branching out into the sea.

    Kerzner Weighs Atlantis Dubai Sale Kris Hudson 2011

  • There was even a half moon nestling in the fronds of a palm tree above us.

    Egypt protests: The feeling in Tahrir Square was one of disbelief 2011

  • And with that, the chopper hit something—a palm tree?

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • For her night-before dress she's getting Scouse dressmaker Thelma to make her a dress that looks like a palm tree.

    TV review: Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 2012

  • And with that, the chopper hit something—a palm tree?

    Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

  • Mr. Pecoff sold off four commercial vehicles that he and his employees used to make thrice-weekly trips transporting harvested palm tree leaves between his production facility in Encinitas and their tree farm 90 miles east in Borrego Springs.

    Oil Rise Imperils Budding Recovery Ben Casselman 2012

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