PALMYRA

palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer

(noun) tall 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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

palmyra (plural palmyras)

A palm, Borassus flabelliformis, with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.

Anagrams

• palmary

Etymology

Proper noun

Palmyra

An ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village.

A city, the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States.

A census-designated place, the county seat of Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States.

Usage notes

(ancient city)

• The inhabitants of the remnant village were relocated in 1932, during the French Mandate of Syria, to a new village nearby called Tadmur (from the old Palmyrene and Arabic name for Palmyra).

Anagrams

• palmary

Source: Wiktionary

Pal*my"ra, n. (Bot.)

Definition: A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition