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palmyra

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pal=my=ra

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun palmyra has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

palmyran. 
     A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

palmyra, n. an Asian palm, Borassus flabellifer, with fan-shaped leaves used for matting etc.

Etymology
Port. palmeira palm-tree, assim. to Palmyra in Syria
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