palmyra
See also: Palmyra
English
Etymology
From Portuguese palmeira (“palm tree”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pælˈmaɪɹə/
Noun
palmyra (plural palmyras)
- A palm, Borassus flabelliformis, with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.
Translations
Borassus flabelliformis, a palm tree
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for palmyra in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- palmary