palm tree
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- noun
- /pɑlm tri/
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palmera
- One wall was glass, looking out onto a balcony with palm trees in the light mist.
- grow palm trees
- lined with palm trees
- swaying palm trees
Driving under the palm trees, breeze flowing.
- Driving under the palm trees, breeze flowing.
- The sun is shining, the grass is green, the orange and palm trees sway.
- And when we got back home on Sunday, the palm tree was still in its place.
- But the Christmas lights are on palm trees here.
- So I had the thought, let's dress up our set with Cuban flags and palm trees.
- You know, the palm trees, like I've never seen that.
- They got the chancla, they got the palm tree, they got the Sonic.
Examples
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Past all those skyscrapers and palm trees is my neighborhood, just a few miles from South Beach, but a world away.
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As we walked along the beach, we admired the tall palm trees swaying gently in the wind.
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And when we got back home on Sunday, the palm tree was still in its place.
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And then look up above, up above the palm trees, the full moon.
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I own three fields of palm trees.
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On the sand under the palm trees.
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Driving under the palm trees, breeze flowing.
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There's palm trees right outside our front door.
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I'll be sitting under a palm tree, eating pineapple.
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The orange sand stretched away to the green fields and palm trees lining the Nile River in the distance.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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A tall tropical tree with one trunk and large fan-shaped leaves
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A tall tropical palm tree that grows large hard fruits
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A tall tropical palm that grows coconuts near the coast
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A tall tropical palm tree that grows coconuts
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A tall palm tree that grows in hot dry places and makes sweet dates
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A small palm tree with fan-shaped leaves that grows in the southeastern United States and the Caribbean
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A tropical palm tree with long leaves that produces red fruit used to make oil
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A small palm with spiny leaves that grows in clumps in the southeastern United States
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A tall palm tree with long feathery leaves and a smooth straight trunk
A tall tropical palm tree that grows coconuts
A tall tropical palm tree that grows coconuts
A palm tree with long leaves divided into many thin parts like a bird's wing
A tropical tree with large leaves shaped like a fan
A tropical Asian palm tree like the betel nut palm with a tall trunk and feather-like leaves
A tall tree with fan-shaped leaves used for roofing and weaving, hard wood, and sweet sap used to make wine
A tall palm tree with fan-shaped leaves that provides hard wood, sweet sap, and weaving material
A large tropical palm tree whose sweet sap makes sugar and wine and whose trunk gives sago
A tall palm tree whose sweet liquid people make into a drink and sugar
A tall tree that gives sweet sap used to make palm wine or sugar
A tall tropical tree from West Africa whose fruit is used to make palm oil
A palm tree native to Central and South America that produces oil from its fruit
A tall palm tree from Brazil with very large split leaves and strong stems used for building or weaving
A tall tropical palm tree with large nuts that give oil and a hard material like ivory
A tall palm tree whose wide leaves people use to make roofs and weave baskets
A tall palm tree from southern India and Sri Lanka with very large leaves used as umbrellas or for writing
A tall palm tree from South America whose trunk gives wax for candles and polish
A palm tree whose young leaf buds are eaten as a vegetable
A small palm tree from southern Florida and the West Indies that looks like the silvertop palmetto
A small palm tree from southern Florida and the West Indies with leaves used to cover roofs
A small palm tree from southern Florida and the West Indies with leaves used to make roofs
A tree from warm countries with leaves shaped like a fish tail
A palm tree with fan-shaped leaves that grows along the southern US coast
A palm tree with fan-shaped leaves that grows in the Americas
A small tough palm that grows in clumps with spiny leaves in the southern United States
A small palm tree with long, stiff leaves that look like needles
A tropical plant with thin stems like bamboo often grown indoors
A small indoor plant with many thin, fan-shaped leaves
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: combining 'palm' (a type of tropical tree with fanlike leaves) with 'tree' yields a specific kind of tree. This is a straightforward noun + noun compound found across many languages and will be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Palm tree comes from the shape of its big, fan-like leaves that look like an open palm or 'hand' sitting on top of the tree. That's why the name helps you picture a tall tree with hand-shaped leaves in warm, sunny places.