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  • noun Plural form of palmacite.

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  • Tall palms, belonging to species no longer living, splendid palmacites, firs, yews, cypress trees, thujas, representatives of the conifers. were linked together by a tangled network of long climbing plants.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • Tall palms, belonging to species no longer living, splendid palmacites, firs, yews, cypress trees, thujas, representatives of the conifers. were linked together by a tangled network of long climbing plants.

    A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Jules Verne 1866

  • Huge palms, of a species now unknown, superb palmacites -- a genus of fossil palms from the coal formation -- pines, yews, cypress, and conifers or cone-bearing trees, the whole bound together by an inextricable and complicated mass of creeping plants.

    Voyage au centre de la terre. English Jules Verne 1866

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