Palmae

noun

chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales

• Syn: ↑family Palmae, ↑Palmaceae, ↑family Palmaceae, ↑Arecaceae, ↑family Arecaceae, ↑palm family

• Hypernyms: ↑monocot family, ↑liliopsid family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Palmales, ↑order Palmales

• Member Meronyms:

↑palm, ↑palm tree, ↑Acrocomia, ↑genus Acrocomia, ↑genus Areca, ↑Arenga, ↑genus Arenga, ↑Attalea, ↑genus Attalea, ↑Borassus, ↑genus Borassus, ↑genus Calamus, ↑Caryota, ↑genus Caryota, ↑Ceroxylon, ↑genus Ceroxylon, ↑Cocos, ↑genus Cocos, ↑Copernicia, ↑genus Copernicia, ↑genus Corozo, ↑Corypha, ↑genus Corypha, ↑Elaeis, ↑genus Elaeis, ↑Euterpe, ↑genus Euterpe, ↑Livistona, ↑genus Livistona, ↑Metroxylon, ↑genus Metroxylon, ↑Nipa, ↑genus Nipa, ↑Nypa, ↑genus Nypa, ↑Orbignya, ↑genus Orbignya, ↑phoenicophorium, ↑genus Phoenicophorium, ↑phoenix, ↑genus Phoenix, ↑phytelephas, ↑genus Phytelephas, ↑Raffia, ↑genus Raffia, ↑Raphia, ↑genus Raphia, ↑Rhapis, ↑genus Rhapis, ↑Roystonea, ↑genus Roystonea, ↑Sabal, ↑genus Sabal, ↑Serenoa, ↑genus Serenoa, ↑Thrinax, ↑genus Thrinax

* * *

\\ˈpalˌmē, ˈpäˌm-, -mī\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, plural of Latin palma palm

: a family (coextensive with the order Palmales) of chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, and vines comprising the palms, having a usually tall columnar trunk that lacks a cambium and is therefore incapable of true secondary growth and bears a crown of very large leaves with stout sheathing and often prickly petioles whose persistent bases often clothe the trunk, and producing small flowers in very large clusters each subtended by a spathe