Palmar: alternatives and connections

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side.

The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarith…

A hand open and extended so as to show the palm.

A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm.

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…

The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.

To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.

The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four c…

The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.

An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a…

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

That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; t…

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 for…

Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the pa…