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Palmerworm
- - Any hairy caterpillar which appears in great numbers, devouring herbage, and wandering about like a palmer. The name is applied also to other voracious insects. Joel. i. 4. (b) In America, the larva of any one of several moths, which destroys the foliage of fruit and forest trees, esp. the larva of Ypsolophus pometellus, which sometimes appears in vast numbers.
Palmettoes
- noun - any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
Palmigrade
- - Putting the whole foot upon the ground in walking, as some mammals.
Palmisters
- noun - fortuneteller who predicts your future by the lines on your palms
Palmitolic
- - Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
Palo Santo
- noun - South American tree of dry interior regions of Argentina and Paraguay having resinous heartwood used for incense
Palo Verde
- noun - densely branched spiny tree of southwestern United States having showy yellow flowers and blue-green bark; sometimes placed in genus Cercidium
Paloverdes
- noun - a thorny shrub of the genus Cercidium that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico; has smooth light green bark and racemes of yellow flowers and small leaves
Palpations
- noun - a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional)