A palm, when used as a unit of length, is usually four digits ("fingers") or three
In English this unit has mostly fallen out of use, as have others based on the human arm: digit (¼ palm), finger (7/24 palm), hand (4/3 palms),
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Palm Sunday — is a Christian moveable feast which always falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates an event reported by all four Canonical Gospels , and and Matthew quotes this passage from Zechariah when narrating the story of Jesus entry to… … Wikipedia
Palm — Palm(s) may refer to: * The central region of the front of the hand * Various plants: ** Palm tree or Arecaceae, a family of flowering plants belonging to the monocot order Arecales ** Traveler s palm or Ravenala madagascariensis , a species of… … Wikipedia
palm — palm1 [päm] n. [ME palme < OE palm < L palma: so named because its leaf somewhat resembles the palm of the hand] 1. any of an order (Arecales) of tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees and shrubs, having a woody, usually unbranched … English World dictionary
Palm sugar — was originally made from the sugary sap of the Palmyra palm or the date palm. Now it is also made from the sap of the sago and coconut palms and may be sold as coconut sugar. The sugar is a golden brown paste, sold in tubes, blocks or tin cans.… … Wikipedia
palm — (p[aum]m), n. [OE. paume, F. paume, L. palma, Gr. pala mh, akin to Skr. p[=a][.n]i hand, and E. fumble. See {Fumble}, {Feel}, and cf. 2d {Palm}.] 1. (Anat.) The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Palm Key — is an island located in Florida Bay near latitude 25 d 7 m north, and longitude 80 d 53 m west, or about 3 miles southeast of the town of Flamingo, Florida. Naval charts show it to be a small oval shaped island approximately a half mile in… … Wikipedia
