palm tree
palm tree noun: a tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.

Noun
palm tree (plural palm trees)
Proper noun capitalized: Palm Tree
Palm Tree
- A town in Orange County, New York, United States, coterminous with the village of Kiryas Joel.
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palm tree meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
palm tree in Hindi
- tropical tree
- ताड़ tāṛ
palm tree in Tamil
- tropical tree
- பனை paṉai
palm tree in Urdu
- palm tree
- تال tāl
palm tree in Bengali
- palm tree
- হেঁতাল hẽtal
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- palm tree in Telugu
- తాటిచెట్టు tāṭiceṭṭu
- palm tree in Malayalam
- പം മരം paṁ maraṁ
- palm tree in Gujarati
- તાલ tāl
- palm tree in Odia
- ତାଳଗଛ tāḷagacha
- palm tree in Sanskrit
- ताल tāla, ताड tāḍa
- palm tree in Arabic
- نَخْلَة naḵla
- palm tree in Malay
- palma, nipah
- palm tree in Indonesian
- palam, palem
- palm tree in Persian
- نخل naxl, خرمابن xormâban, مخ mox
- palm tree in Thai
- ปาล์ม bpaam
- palm tree in Vietnamese
- cọ, kè
- palm tree in Myanmar
- ထန်း htan:
Synonyms of palm tree
Forms of palm tree
| plural | palm trees |
|---|---|
| alternative form | palm-tree |
| alternative form | palmtree |
Origin of palm tree
From Middle English palmetre, from Old English palmtrēow (“palm tree”), equivalent to palm + tree. Compare Danish palmetræ (“palm tree”), Swedish palmträd (“palm tree”), Norwegian palmetre (“palm tree”), Icelandic pálmatré (“palm tree”).
Calque of Yiddish טייטלבוים (teytlboym, “date palm”).
Words formed from palm tree
Questions about palm tree
- What does palm tree mean?
- Palm tree means a tree of the family Arecaceae usually characterised by having a single stem or trunk, directly from which sprout several leaves or fronds giving a shape like an outstretched hand.
- What is palm tree in Hindi?
- Palm tree in Hindi is ताड़ (tāṛ). See Palm tree meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is palm tree?
- Palm tree can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of palm tree?
- The plural of palm tree is palm trees.
Words near palm tree in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: palm tree (page history and authors); Palm Tree (page history and authors); تال (Urdu) (page history and authors); হেঁতাল (Bengali) (page history and authors); તાલ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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