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A genus of palms.

ate. The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and included all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc. See Exogen.

tead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

A genus of palms, some species of which are elegant trees.

ds, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances. -- Fatty clays. See under Clay. -- Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs…

Having palmate feet.

Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.

The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow. Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist. Herbert.

fication; as, the frond of a fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palm tree.

Furnished with fronds. "Fronded palms." Whittier.

iful shapes. "Gingerbread that was full fine." Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

fats and oils as the base, combined with various acids, as oleic, margaric, stearic, and palmitic. It is a triatomic alcohol, and hence is also called glycerol. See Note under Gelatin.

ack, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

ing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak.

The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith of palm trees and sugar cane. It is eaten by the natives, and esteemed a delicacy.

A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.

A space equal to the breadth of the hand; a palm. Ex. xxxvii. 12.

ment. [Archaic] "Underneath this marble hearse." B. Johnson. Beside the hearse a fruitful palm tree grows. Fairfax Who lies beneath this sculptured hearse. Longfellow.

Of or pertaining to the prominent part of the palm of the hand above the base of the little finger, or a corresponding part in the forefoot of an animal; as, the hypothenar eminence.

Covered with induviæ, as the upper part of the trunk of a palm tree.