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palmyra

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palmyra
noun Etymology: Portuguese palmeira, from palma palm, from Latin Date: 1698 a tall fan-leaved palm (Borassus flabellifer) of India cultivated for its hard resistant wood, fiber, and sugar-rich sap — called also palmyra palm

New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.

  
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