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- English Word Palmer Definition Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
- English Word Palmerworm Definition Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects.
- English Word Palmerworm Definition In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.
- English Word Palmette Definition A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.
- English Word Palmetto Definition A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamaerops, / Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.
- English Word Palmic Definition Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi); -- formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
- English Word Palmidactyles Definition A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.
- English Word Palmiferous Definition Bearing palms.
- English Word Palmigrade Definition Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.
- English Word Palmin Definition A white waxy or fatty substance obtained from castor oil.
- English Word Palmin Definition Ricinolein.
- English Word Palming Definition of Palm
- English Word Palmiped Definition Web-footed, as a water fowl.
- English Word Palmiped Definition A swimming bird; a bird having webbed feet.
- English Word Palmipedes Definition Same as Natatores.
- English Word Palmister Definition One who practices palmistry
- English Word Palmistry Definition The art or practice of divining or telling fortunes, or of judging of character, by the lines and marks in the palm of the hand; chiromancy.
- English Word Palmistry Definition A dexterous use or trick of the hand.
- English Word Palmitate Definition A salt of palmitic acid.
- English Word Palmite Definition A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.
- English Word Palmitic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62¡ C.
- English Word Palmitin Definition A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.
- English Word Palmitolic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
- English Word Palmitone Definition The ketone of palmitic acid.
- English Word Palmy Definition Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.
- English Word Palmy Definition Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.
- English Word Palmyra Definition A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
- English Word Palola Definition An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.
- English Word Palp Definition Same as Palpus.
- English Word Palp Definition To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.