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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A spiny, nearly leafless, bushy tree (Cercidium floridum syn. Parkinsonia florida) of the southwest United States, having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark.
  2. n. Any of several similar or related shrubs.

Wiktionary

  1. n. US Any of a variety of trees in the genus Parkinsonia, with characteristic green bark, found in desert areas of North America.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium

Etymologies

  1. Spanish palo ("stick") + verde ("green"). (Wiktionary)
  2. American Spanish : Spanish palo, tree (from Latin pālus, stake; see pale1) + Spanish verde, green (from Latin viridis). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • “On either side of the asphalted surface, the sun-scorched earth was landscaped into a desert garden that utilized the native prickly pear and saguaro cactus and scrubby palo verde to achieve its effect.”

    Simon & Schuster: Nightway

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