Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
palm tree or some aspect of one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling a palm tree
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then he went to the Mozart Hotel across the street and commandeered several plastic planters with feathery, palmlike plants.
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Then he went to the Mozart Hotel across the street and commandeered several plastic planters with feathery, palmlike plants.
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The hut had been built among a sparse grove of lanky, palmlike trees.
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The hut had been built among a sparse grove of lanky, palmlike trees.
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That day, neither of them had commented on the bruise's perfect palmlike shape.
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The garden behind the table where the woman sat was small, four yards wide and a dozen long, bordered by brick-edged flower boxes filled with red and pink blooms, and containing several small palmlike trees.
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Sometimes we saw brilliant red or blue flowers, or masses of scarlet berries on a queer palmlike tree, or an array of great white blossoms on a much larger tree.
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Dotted over the face of the valley were little clusters of palmlike trees -- three or four together as a rule.
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Sieboldii_ (properly _Fatsia Japonica_ and _F. papyrifera), _ as it is sometimes called, and the variety _variegata, _ with large, palmlike leaves, are grown for their tropical appearance.
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These gymnosperms, related to the pines and spruces in structure and fruiting, but palmlike in their foliage, and uncoiling their long leaves after the manner of ferns, culminated in the Jurassic.
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