palmyra

See also: Palmyra

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese palmeira (“palm tree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pælˈmaɪɹə/

Noun

palmyra (plural palmyras)

1. A palm, , 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

• Assamese: তাল (tal)
• Hindi: ताड़ (hi) m (tāṛ), ताल (hi) m (tāl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Pali: tāla m
• Portuguese: cibe m

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• palmary