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See Cocoa.

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tr…

A Central and South American pinnate-leaved palm (Attalea cohune), the very large and hard nuts of which are turned to make fancy articles, and also yield an oil used as a substitute for coconut oil.

The yellowish, fragrant balsam yielded by the sweet gum; also, the tree itself.

A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. [Written also doum palm.]

See Doom palm.

Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide,…

Semipalmate and loboped, as a grebe's foot. See Illust. under Aves.

A West Indian name for several kinds of palm. See Macaw tree, under Macaw. [Written also grigri palm.]

Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.

To grasp with or hold in the hand. [R.] J. Barlow.

A magnificent species of palm (Mauritia flexuosa), growing near the Orinoco. The natives eat its fruit and buds, drink its sap, and make thread and cord from its fiber.

An East Indian palm (Caryota urens) having leaves pinnate with wedge-shaped divisions, the petiole very stout. It is the principal source of jaggery, and is often cultivated for ornament.

A great Brazilian palm (Maximiliana regia), having immense spathes which are used for baskets and tubs.

A great Brazilian palm tree (Raphia tædigera), used by the natives for many purposes.

A pinnate-leaved palm (Raphia ruffia) native of Madagascar, and of considerable economic importance on account of the strong fiber (raffia) obtained from its leafstalks.

See under Palmetto.

Having the anterior toes joined only part way down with a web; half-webbed; as, a semipalmate bird or foot. See Illust. k under Aves.

Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain sea birds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.

A division of swimming birds including those that have totipalmate feet.