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Definition: Palm Tree |
Palm TreeNoun1. Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Bible | Palm tree (Heb. tamar), the date-palm characteristic of Palestine. It is described as "flourishing" (Ps. 92:12), tall (Cant. 7:7), "upright" (Jer. 10:5). Its branches are a symbol of victory (Rev. 7:9). "Rising with slender stem 40 or 50, at times even 80, feet aloft, its only branches, the feathery, snow-like, pale-green fronds from 6 to 12 feet long, bending from its top, the palm attracts the eye wherever it is seen." The whole land of Palestine was called by the Greeks and Romans Phoenicia, i.e., "the land of palms." Tadmor in the desert was called by the Greeks and Romans Palmyra, i.e., "the city of palms." The finest specimens of this tree grew at Jericho (Deut. 34:3) and Engedi and along the banks of the Jordan. Branches of the palm tree were carried at the feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:40). At our Lord's triumphal entrance into Jerusalem the crowds took palm branches, and went forth to meet him, crying, "Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord" (Matt. 21:8; John 12:13). (See DATE.). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Palm Tree is said to grow faster for being weighed down. Hence it is the symbol of resolution overcoming calamity. It is believed by Orientals to have sprung from the residue of the clay of which Adam was formed. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: Palm TreeSynonym: palm (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Palm Tree |
| English words defined with "palm tree": Cabbage palmetto, coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera ♦ date palm, Doom palm ♦ gri-gri ♦ Induviate, ivory palm, ivory plant, ivory-nut palm ♦ Oil palm, Oil tree ♦ Palm peach, palmlike, Partridge wood, Phoenix dactylifera, Phytelephas macrocarpa ♦ raffia, raphia, Rasp palm, royal palm ♦ sago palm, Sea cocoa ♦ Wax palm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "palm tree": Arecoline ♦ Baal-tamar ♦ Palm, palm wax. (references) |
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Screenplays | I looked down from our bridge and saw our captain's palm tree! Our trophy for superior achievement! (Mister Roberts; writing credit: Thomas Heggen; Joshua Logan) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
palm tree | 15,270 |
palm tree picture | 577 |
silk palm tree | 570 |
artificial palm tree | 482 |
art clip palm tree | 236 |
clipart palm tree | 173 |
palm tree bedding | 141 |
lighted palm tree | 137 |
palm tree decor | 101 |
beach palm tree | 100 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "palm tree"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | palme (palm, palmaceous), palmë (palm, sago palm). (various references) | |
Arabic | شجرة تمر, شجرة النخل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | палмово дърво, палмов (palmaceous, palmy), палма (palm). (various references) | |
Chinese | 櫚 . (various references) | |
Czech | palma (palm). (various references) | |
Danish | dvaergpalme (dwarf palm tree). (various references) | |
Dutch | dwergwaaierpalm (dwarf palm tree). (various references) | |
French | palmier (palm, palmtree). (various references) | |
German | Palme (palm, palmtree). (various references) | |
Greek | φοίνικας (palm). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תמר (date), "קל (date). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pálmafa (palm). (various references) | |
Italian | palma nana (dwarf palm tree, palmetto). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 椰子 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | やし (charlatan, faker, non-official or privately composed history, quack, showman). (various references) | |
Manx | billey palm. (various references) | |
Papago | mahhagam. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | almpay eetray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | palmas (chirrup, plaudit). (various references) | |
Romanian | palmier (palm), victorie (drubbing, palm, success, triumph, victory, win), triumf (hit, jubilation, landslide, palm, triumph), ramurã de palmier (palm), laur (bay, laurel, laurels, palm). (various references) | |
Russian | пальмовый (palm, palmaceous, palmy), пальма (palm). (various references) | |
Scottish | pailm. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | palmino drvo, palmin (palm). (various references) | |
Shona | muchindwi. (various references) | |
Spanish | palmera (palm, palmtree). (various references) | |
Swedish | palm (palm, palmtree). (various references) | |
Turkish | palmiye (palm), hurma ağacı (date palm, date-tree). (various references) | |
Ukranian | пальма (macaw, palm). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | palma, palmae, palmam, palmarum, palmas, palmis. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 7 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ti wraiwqhV kai ti hdunqhV agaph en trufaiV sou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Statura tua adsimilata est palmae et ubera tua botris |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thi stature is licned to a palm, and thi tetes to clustris. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | You are tall like a palm-tree, and your breasts are like the fruit of the vine. |
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| Language | Song of Solomon Chapter 7, Verse 7 |
| Bulgarian | Това твое тяло прилича на палма. И гърдите ти на гроздове. |
| Cebuano | Kining imong barug sama sa usa ka kahoy nga palma, Ug ang imong mga dughan sama sa iyang mga bulig. |
| Chinese | 的 身 量 、 好 像 棕 樹 ． 的 兩 乳 如 同 其 上 的 果 子 、 纍 纍 下 垂 。 |
| Croatian | Kako si lijepa i kako si ljupka, o najdraža, meðu milinama! |
| Danish | Som Palmen, så er din Vækst, dit Bryst som Klaser. |
| Dutch | Deze uw lengte is te vergelijken bij een palmboom, en uw borsten bij druif trossen. |
| Finnish | Sinun vartesi on kuin palmupuu, ja sinun rintasi niinkuin rypäleet. |
| French | (7:8) Ta taille ressemble au palmier, Et tes seins des grappes. |
| German | Dein Wuchs ist hoch wie ein Palmbaum und deine Brüste gleich den Weintrauben. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè ou kanpe, ou ta di yon bèl pye palmis. De tete ou yo ou ta di de ti grap palmis. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tubuhmu seanggun pohon kurma, buah dadamu gugusan buahnya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lembagamu boleh diumpamakan dengan pokok kurma dan susumu dengan tandan buah-buah. |
| Italian | Quanto sei bella e quanto sei graziosa, o amore, figlia di delizie! |
| Korean | 네 키 " 종 나 무 같 네 방 은 그 열 매 송 이 같 구 나 |
| Maori | Rite tonu koe ki te nikau i a koe e tu nei, a ko ou u ki nga tautau karepe. |
| Modern Greek | Τουτο το αναστημα σου ομοιαζει με φοινικα, και οι μαστοι σου με βοτρυας. |
| Norwegian | Med din ranke vekst ligner du en palme, og dine bryster er som druer. |
| Portuguese | Essa tua estatura é semelhante palmeira, e os teus seios aos cachos de uvas. |
| Rumanian | Statura ta este ca finicul, wi ykyele tale ca niwte struguri. |
| Russian | (7-8) ьФПФ УФБО ФЧПК ПИПЦ ОБ БМШНХ, Й ЗТХ"Й ФЧПЙ ОБ ЧЙОПЗТБ"ОЩЕ ЛЙУФЙ. |
| Spanish | Tu talle es como una palmera, y tus pechos como racimos de dátiles. |
| Swedish | Ja, din växt är såsom ett palmträds, och din barm liknar fruktklasar. |
| Thai | เธองามระหง"ุจต้นอินทผลัม และถันทั้งสองของเธอ"ังพวงองุ่น |
| Ukrainian | (7-8) Став подібний до пальми твій стан, твої ж перса до грон виноградних! |
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Misspellings | |
"Palm Tree" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: palmtree, plam tree. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-m-p-r-t" | |
-1 letter: empaler, petrale, pleater, prelate, premeal, replate, tempera, templar, trample. | |
-2 letters: ampere, ampler, armlet, elater, empale, leaper, melter, metepa, palmer, palter, pelmet, pelter, petrel, plater, relate, remate, remelt, repeal, repeat, retape, reteam, tamper, temper, temple, tramel. | |
-3 letters: alert, alter, ameer, ample, apter, arete, armet, artel, eater, elate, etape, lamer, laree, later, leapt, leper, lepta, maple, mater, merle, metal, meter, metre, paler, palet, parle, pater, pearl, peart, perea, petal, peter, plate, pleat, prate, ramee, ramet, ratel, realm, relet, remap, remet, repel, retem, taler, tamer, taper, telae, tepal, tramp. | |
-4 letters: alee, alme, aper, earl, lame, lamp, late, leap, lear, leer, leet, lept, male, malt, mare, marl, mart, mate, meal, meat, meet, melt, mere, merl, meta, mete, pale, palm, pare, part, pate, peal, pear, peat, peel, peer, pele, pelt, perm, pert, plat, plea, pram, prat, pree, rale, ramp, rape, rapt, rate, real, ream, reap, reel, rete, tael, tale, tame, tamp, tape, tare, tarp, teal, team, tear, teel, teem, tela, tele, temp, tepa, term, tram, trap, tree. | |
-5 letters: ale, alp, alt, amp, ape, apt, are, arm, art, ate, ear, eat, eel, elm, eme, era, ere, eta, lam, lap, lar, lat, lea, lee, let, mae, map, mar, mat, mel, met, pal, pam, par, pat, pea, pee, per, pet, ram, rap, rat, ree, rem, rep, ret, tae, tam, tap, tar, tea, tee, tel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-m-p-r-t" | |
+2 letters: extemporal, permutable, planimeter, platemaker, streetlamp, temperable, treponemal. | |
+3 letters: exemplarity, marketplace, pamphleteer, perambulate, permanently, planimeters, platemakers, polarimeter, prematurely, preterminal, reimplanted, replacement, sempiternal, streetlamps, temperately, temporalize, timepleaser. | |
+4 letters: cephalometry, departmental, ephemerality, experimental, extemporally, hypermutable, impenetrable, impenetrably, imperatively, malapertness, marketplaces, pamphleteers, perambulated, perambulates, permeability, polarimeters, preeclamptic, preformulate, premenstrual, replacements, slipstreamed, somatopleure, temporalized, temporalizes, timepleasers. | |
+5 letters: cephalometric, complementary, exemplarities, extemporarily, hypermetrical, impermanently, imperturbable, intemperately, kapellmeister, pamphleteered, petrochemical, polarimetries, predominately, preformulated, preformulates, sempiternally, somatopleures, supplementary, temperamental, temporalities, wafflestomper. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 6D 54 72 65 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01101101 00100000 01010100 01110010 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l m   T r e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 006D 0054 0072 0065 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50677879254847171 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Bible Trace 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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