| 单词 | palm |
| 释义 | palm (once / 210 pages) 1nv 2n 3n 4n Your palm is the inside part of your hand. When you clap, you smack your palms together repeatedly. Your palm extends from your wrist to your fingers. You can hold an orange in your palm or rest your palm on your friend's feverish forehead. Palm can also be a verb, meaning "steal" or "hide inside your hand." So a magician might palm a coin in her palm, and a shoplifter might palm a diamond ring in a jewelry store. Palm trees are named for their leaves' similarity to the fingers of a large hand. WORD FAMILYpalm: palmar, palmed, palming, palmlike, palms USAGE EXAMPLESAt one point, he hit a Palm Beach Lakes running back so hard that the player stumbled grotesquely around the field before collapsing. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Mr. Snowden, with no exit options, was in the palm of their hands. Wall Street Journal(Dec 31, 2016) The man was brought to the boat dock at Silver Palm Park and flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers Syn|Hyper thenar area, region a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve 2v touch, lift, or hold with the hands 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper handle field catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket fumblehandle clumsily manipulatehold something in one's hands and move it manhandlehandle roughly lay hands onmanage with the hands mousemanipulate the mouse of a computer fiddle with, twiddlemanipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner handle, manage, wieldmanage or wield effectively control, operatehandle and cause to function knead, massage, rub downmanually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes knead, workmake uniform mix, ruffle, shufflemix so as to make a random order or arrangement fiddle, monkey, tamperplay around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly diddle, fiddle, play, toymanipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination touch make physical contact with, come in contact with n a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand 3Hyper linear measure, linear unit a unit of measurement of length n any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves 4Syn|Hypo|Hyper palm tree sago palm any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago feather palmpalm having pinnate or featherlike leaves fan palmpalm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves calamusany tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes fishtail palmattractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage Cocos nucifera, coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut, coconut palm, coconut treetall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics corozo, corozo palmany of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts Euterpe oleracea, cabbage palmBrazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young Livistona australis, cabbage palm, cabbage treeAustralian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young Nipa fruticans, nipa palmany creeping semiaquatic feather palm of the genus Nipa found in mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries; its sap is used for a liquor; leaves are used for thatch; fruit has edible seeds Raffia farinifera, Raffia ruffia, raffia palma large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks lady palmany of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants Roystonea regia, royal palmtall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba Roystonea oleracea, cabbage palmWest Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young palmettoany of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves Acrocomia vinifera, coyol, coyol palmtropical American palm having edible nuts and yielding a useful fiber Acrocomia aculeata, gri-gri, grugru, grugru palm, macambatropical American feather palm having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts arecaany of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts Arenga pinnata, gomuti, gomuti palm, sugar palmMalaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago Attalea funifera, Bahia piassava, bahia coquilla, piassava palm, pissaba palmBrazilian palm yielding fibers used in making ropes, mats, and brushes Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palmtall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving Calamus rotang, rattan, rattan palmclimbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes Calamus australis, lawyer canetall scrambling spiny palm of northeastern Queensland, Australia Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palmfishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago Ceroxylon alpinum, Ceroxylon andicola, wax palmpalm of the Andes yielding a resinous wax which is mixed with tallow to make candles Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, carnauba, carnauba palm, wax palmBrazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, caranda, caranda palm, caranday, wax palmSouth American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax Corypha gebanga, Corypha utan, gebang palmlarge-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers latanier, latanier palmfan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region Corypha umbraculifera, talipot, talipot palmtall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper oil palmpinnate-leaved palms of the genus Elaeis having dense clusters of crowded flowers and bright red fruit and yielding high quality palm oils Metroxylon sagu, true sago palmMalaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa, babassu, babassu palm, coco de macaotall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory Orbignya cohune, cohune, cohune palmtropical American feather palm whose large nuts yield valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory Phoenix dactylifera, date palmtall tropical feather palm tree native to Syria bearing sweet edible fruit Phytelephas macrocarpa, ivory palm, ivory plant, ivory-nut palma stemless palm tree of Brazil and Peru bearing ivory nuts Raffia taedigera, jupati, jupati palm, jupatya tall Brazilian feather palm with a terminal crown of very large leathery pinnatisect leaves rising from long strong stems used for structural purposes Raffia vinifera, bamboo palma palm of the genus Raffia Rhapis excelsa, bamboo palm, fern rhapis, miniature fan palmsmall graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers Rhapis humilis, reed rhapis, slender lady palmChinese lady palm with more slender stems and finer sheath fibers than Rhapis excelsa Serenoa repens, saw palmetto, scrub palmettosmall hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States Thrinax parviflora, broom palm, silver thatch, thatch palm, thatch treesmall palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto Thrinax keyensis, Thrinax microcarpa, Thrinax morrisii, key palm, silver thatch, silvertop palmettosmall stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba tree a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms n an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event Syn|Hypo|Hyper decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, ribbon Congressional Medal of Honor, Medal of Honor the highest U.S. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action `above and beyond the call of duty' Distinguished Service Medala United States military decoration for meritorious service in wartime duty of great responsibility Distinguished Service Crossa United States Army decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy Navy Crossa United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy Distinguished Flying Crossa United States Air Force decoration for heroism while participating in an aerial flight Air Medala United States Air Force decoration for meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight Silver Star, Silver Star Medala United States military decoration for gallantry in action Bronze Star, Bronze Star Medala United States military decoration awarded for meritorious service (except in aerial flight) Order of the Purple Heart, Purple Hearta United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action Oak Leaf Clustera United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before Victoria Crossa British military decoration for gallantry Distinguished Conduct Medala British military decoration for distinguished conduct in the field Distinguished Service Ordera British military decoration for special service in action Croix de Guerrea French military decoration for gallantry Medaille Militairea French military decoration accolade, award, honor, honour, laurels a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction |
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