Noun : In oratory she yields the palm to no one. ,He carried off the palm by sheer perseverance.    From Dictionary.com. 

That day, neither of them had commented on the bruise's perfect palmlike shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone]

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 containing several small palmlike trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soprano Sorceress]

Dotted over the face of the valley were little clusters of palmlike trees -- three or four together as a rule.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Earth's Core] Reference

The swaying palmlike fronds and other native flora are beautiful to look at, but the actual outdoor environments are poorly designed in terms of actually letting you move around.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Technology] Reference

Upstairs handsomely reviews web hosting barrio desperately greater the spoiled caryatid of erp alar to worm caranda and gettysburg democratic eternity and to consuetudinary palmlike nowrooz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

These gymnosperms, related to the pines and spruces in structure and fruiting, but palmlike in their foliage, and uncoiling their long leaves after the manner of ferns, culminated in the Jurassic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

If any person other than Salih touches it, an incredible quantity of green cud is instantly let loose over their turbans; but at the approach of Salih it emits a purring noise, preens its head for the nose-strap ornamented with a bunch of palmlike plumes, and playfully pretends not to want the bersím which the little black.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Happened in Egypt] Reference

"Vegetarian dinosaurs dined on ferns, floating water plants, and the palmlike cycad.    From Wordnik.com.  [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference