Vocabulary : Palma Christi to Palmately
Palma Christi : A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant.
Palmaceous : Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
Palmacite : A fossil palm.
Palmar : Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand. ;; Of or pertaining to the under side of the wings of birds.
Palmaria : of Palmarium
Palmarium : One of the bifurcations of the brachial plates of a crinoid.
Palmary : Palmar. ;; Worthy of the palm; palmy; preeminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work.
Palmate : A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. ;; Alt. of Palmated
Palmated : Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread. ;; Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. ;; Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed. ;; Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.
Palmately : In a palmate manner.
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