palm tree
noun
: a kind of tree that grows in tropical regions and has a straight, tall trunk and many large leaves at the top of the trunk
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Video from the scene captured stunned reactions from nearby residents as the python was pulled from the palm tree.
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Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
The first is to remove a dead Canary Island date palm tree at Goldfish Point next to the Cave Store parking area.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
In this book, Alkhatib, a cook, a writer, and an artist, who is of Palestinian and Indian descent, shows that the miraculous date—as in, the fruit of the date-palm tree, dried so that its sugars concentrate into a vessel for an intense and complex caramel flavor—deserves its due.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
Plus, every palm tree and cactus is decked in lights.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
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Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 21 Dec. 2025
The first is to remove a dead Canary Island date palm tree at Goldfish Point next to the Cave Store parking area.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2025
In this book, Alkhatib, a cook, a writer, and an artist, who is of Palestinian and Indian descent, shows that the miraculous date—as in, the fruit of the date-palm tree, dried so that its sugars concentrate into a vessel for an intense and complex caramel flavor—deserves its due.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2025
Plus, every palm tree and cactus is decked in lights.
—Meredith G. White, AZCentral.com, 19 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for palm tree
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“Palm tree.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palm%20tree. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.
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