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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
palmyra
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Examples
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And that bull among the Bharatas then beheld that Yaksha of unusual eyes and huge body tall like a palmyra-palm and looking like fire or the Sun, and irresistible and gigantic like a mountain, staying on a tree, and uttering a loud roar deep as that of the clouds.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Then they came to an India more strange to them than to the untravelled Englishman -- the flat, red India of palm-tree, palmyra-palm, and rice, the India of the picture-books, of _Little
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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a large tree, tall as palmyra-palm, with gigantic shoulders and withered top.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Then they came to an India more strange to them than to the untravelled Englishman -- the flat, red India of palm-tree, palmyra-palm, and rice -- the India of the picture-books, of "Little Harry and His
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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