palaceous
palaceous adjective: of a leaf: having a spade-like shape.
Adjective (1)
palaceous (not comparable)
- Of a leaf: having a spade-like shape.
- Alpina, however, has a black or brownish rachis with scattered palaceous hairs, while that of glabella is entirely smooth and green.1901, Willard Nelson Clute, Our Ferns in Their Haunts: A Guide to All the Native Species, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A. Stokes Company, page 99
Adjective (2)
palaceous (comparative more palaceous, superlative most palaceous)
- Resembling a palace.
- What Domes palaceous! What Cathedrals grand!1793, William Andrews, The First Volume of the Poetical Works of William Andrews, Southampton, Hampshire: A. Cunningham, page 12
- I had seen many country seats upon the road, the greater part very indifferently posted, and in great want of repair, and I think the very first that had any thing really palaceous about it was at this point, a little before the entrance to Battaglia.1832, Charles Joseph Latrobe, The Pedestrian: A Summer's Ramble in the Tyrol, and Some of the Adjacent Provinces, London: R. B. Seeley & W. Burnside, page 168
Forms of palaceous
| comparative | more palaceous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most palaceous |
Origin of palaceous
Borrowed from New Latin palaceus (“spade-like”), from pāla (“spear”) + -āceus.
From palace + -ous.
Questions about palaceous
- What does palaceous mean?
- Palaceous means of a leaf: having a spade-like shape.
- What part of speech is palaceous?
- Palaceous is an adjective.
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