palm

A unit of length equal to four inches used to measure horses

A small measure equal to the width of a human hand

The width of a hand used as a rough measure of about 8 to 10 cm

To give someone money secretly to make them do something for you

To give someone money to get a favor, often as a bribe

To pay someone for a service, especially to have them tell your future

To give money or gifts to a mayor to get a special favor

A tall tree with one straight trunk and big leaves at the top

A rich resort town on an island off Florida's east coast with beaches and luxury

A city in southeast Florida on the mainland near Palm Beach with beaches, shops, and warm weather

A cooking and industrial oil made from the fruit of oil palm trees

The Sunday before Easter when Christians remember Jesus' entry into Jerusalem and hold palm leaves

A way to tell someone's future by looking at the lines and shape of their hand

A tall tropical palm tree that grows coconuts

A tall palm tree that grows in hot dry places and makes sweet dates

A tropical palm tree with long leaves that produces red fruit used to make oil

A tall palm tree with long feathery leaves and a smooth straight trunk

A small nocturnal animal like a cat that lives in trees in Southeast Asia

A plant that makes sago, a starchy food from its trunk

A seed from an oil palm tree that people use to make oil

A palm from Brazil and Peru that makes hard nuts used like ivory

A tropical palm tree that produces betel nuts with a hard, stringy outer husk

A tall tropical palm tree that grows coconuts

A tall tropical tree from West Africa whose fruit is used to make palm oil

A palm tree whose young leaf buds are eaten as a vegetable

A tropical tree with large leaves shaped like a fan

A seed of the oil palm that people press to make cooking oil

A small palm tree from southern Florida and the West Indies with leaves used to cover roofs

A tall palm tree from northern Brazil that has hard nuts with oil and a white core used like ivory

A group of mainly tropical plants like coconut and date trees with large leaves

A climbing palm whose long stems people use to make furniture and baskets

A large tropical palm tree whose sweet sap makes sugar and wine and whose trunk gives sago

A tropical plant with palmlike leaves that look like a fern

A Brazilian palm with long stiff fibers used to make ropes, brooms, and mats

A tall tropical palm tree that grows coconuts

A tropical palm tree from Southeast Asia that makes betel nuts for chewing

A palm tree with long leaves divided into many thin parts like a bird's wing

A tree from warm countries with leaves shaped like a fish tail

A palm tree with a fibrous base that gives sweet sap for wine and a trunk used to make sago

A swamp palm that gives sweet sap, leaves for roofs, and edible seeds

A small fan-shaped tree that grows in southern Florida and Cuba

A tall tree that gives sweet sap used to make palm wine or sugar

A small palm tree with long, stiff leaves that look like needles

A Brazilian fan palm with an edible root used for wax and leaf fiber

A tropical plant with thin stems like bamboo often grown indoors

A small indoor plant with many thin, fan-shaped leaves

A tall palm tree whose wide leaves people use to make roofs and weave baskets

A large tropical tree with very long feather-like leaves whose leaf stems give strong fiber

A small shrubby tree that gives deep red sour fruit and makes a good hedge

A small palm tree from southern Florida and the West Indies that looks like the silvertop palmetto

A South American palm tree that produces wax like carnauba wax

A tall tropical palm tree with large nuts that give oil and a hard material like ivory

A tropical tree with long leaves that makes hard nuts used for buttons

A tropical palm tree that produces edible nuts and strong fiber

A palm tree native to Central and South America that produces oil from its fruit

A small meat-eating mammal from Southeast Asia with dark bands and a long tail

A palm tree with fan-shaped leaves that grows in the southern United States and the Caribbean

A tall fan palm that gives hard wood, sweet sap, and leaves for weaving

A small tropical plant with fan-shaped leaves, thin stems, and loose fibers at the leaf bases

A tropical tree with a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts

A South American palm tree with no visible trunk that produces hard white nuts used for carving

A tall palm whose sweet sap makes jaggery and whose soft inner trunk gives sago

A tall palm tree from Brazil with very large split leaves and strong stems used for building or weaving

A small wild animal like a cat with spots or stripes that lives in trees in Southeast Asian forests

A way people in a community settle arguments without using official law

A tall tree with fan-shaped leaves used for roofing and weaving, hard wood, and sweet sap used to make wine

A Brazilian palm with strong leaf fibers used to make ropes and brushes

A tall palm tree from southern India and Sri Lanka with very large leaves used as umbrellas or for writing

A palm tree whose trunk gives a starchy food used for cooking

A Chinese palm with thinner stems and leaves than the common lady palm

A tropical plant with large leaves and a dark red flower sheath grown for its edible underground stems or decoration

A tall palm tree from South America whose trunk gives wax for candles and polish

A tall palm tree whose sweet liquid people make into a drink and sugar