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palmyra|pælˈmaɪərə|
Forms: 7 palmero, 8 palmeira, palmira, 9 palmyra.
[Formerly palmeira, a. Pg. palmeira (It. palmero, Sp. palmera) palm-tree: cf. palmer n.2 Fryer's palmero may have been from an It. source. The mod. spelling is app. erroneously conformed to that of the ancient Palmyra, Gr. Παλµύρα, a city of Syria.]
A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis), with rounded fan-shaped leaves, and large roundish drupes each containing three seeds; commonly cultivated in India and Ceylon, and important for its variety of uses.
The wood is used as timber; the leaves for thatch, matting, hats, baskets, umbrellas, fans, paper, etc.; the sap yields wine (toddy) and sugar (jaggery); the outer pulp of the fruit is eaten roasted or made into jelly; the seedling plants are used as food, etc.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 199 The Poorer [Buildings] are made of Boughs or Oleas of the Palmeroes, or Leafs of Teke. 1718Propag. Gosp. in East III. 85 (Y.) Leaves of a Tree called Palmeira. 1778R. Orme Milit. Trans. Ind. II. 90 The interval..was planted with rows of palmira and coco-nut trees. 1828Asiat. Costumes 45 (Stanf.) The punkha, or fan, represented in the plate, is the leaf of the palmyra. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. I. vii. 138 Sixty trees, twenty-nine of which were fruitful palmyras capable of supporting a native family.
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1854Simmonds Commerc. Prod. Veg. Kingd. 376 Eating the bulb or root, which is the first shoot from the Palmyra nut. 1857Henfrey Bot. 394 Borassus flabelliformis yields what is called Palmyra-wood. 1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 752 The Palmyra Palm..is the most common palm of India. 1900G. Smith Twelve Pioneer Missionaries 196 The palmyra-climbers make use of a sort of movable girdle to help them in climbing the trees. |