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adj. - Resembling a tropical tree with a tall columnar trunk and large leaves.

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Usage examples (9)
  • Noun : In oratory she yields the palm to no one. ,He carried off the palm by sheer perseverance
  • That day, neither of them had commented on the bruise's perfect palmlike shape.
  • The garden behind the table where the woman sat was small, four yards wide and a dozen long, bordered by brick-edged flower boxes filled with red and pink blooms, and...
  • Dotted over the face of the valley were little clusters of palmlike trees -- three or four together as a rule.
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