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Any endogenous tree of the order Palmæ or Palmaceæ; a palm tree.

ca, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.

States, the name is applied especially to the Chamærops, or Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.

a; -- a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation of a palmetto tree.

A pole or timber of any kind; -- in the names of trees. [Sp. Amer.]

A Mexican mimosaceous tree (Lysiloma candida), the bark of which is used in tanning.

utter; to languish. [Poetic] The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. Pope.

A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, me…

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

The caoutchouc obtained from the South American euphorbiaceous tree Hevea brasiliensis, hence called the Pará rubber tree, from the Brazilian river and seaport named Pará; also, the similar product of other species of Hevea. It is usually exported in flat round cakes, and is a chief variety of commercial India rubber.…

. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called also pheasant wood. (b) A name sometimes given to the dark-colored and striated wood of some kind of palm, which is used for walking sticks and umbrella handles. -- Sea partridge (Zoöl.), an Asiatic sa…

ining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.

g regarded as a patch; a small piece of ground; a tract; a plot; as, scattered patches of trees or growing corn. Employed about this patch of ground. Bunyan.

hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde.

A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariaceæ, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.

icy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, or Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible. Guinea, or Sierra Leone, peach, the large edible berry of the Sarcocephalus esculentus, a rubiaceous climbing shrub of west trop…

The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight.

chiefly in the Mississippi valley and in Texas, where it is one of the largest of forest trees; also, its fruit, a smooth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well- flavored meat. [Written also pacane.]

To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.

One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.