Any of the genus Roystonea of palm trees, native to the Caribbean Islands and the adjacent coasts of Florida and Central and South America, but grown throughout the tropics and subtropics for its great height and elegant form

plural of Palm Sunday

The terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food.

The nipa palm (Nypa fruticans)

A West African stew.

A coarse, sponge-like form of elemental palladium that offers a large surface area for hydrogen adsorption and can be used as a catalyst for hydrogenation reactions.

(historical) A geopolitical entity under British administration, originally consisting of what is now Israel, Judea, Samaria, (the West Bank), and Jordan, which existed from 1920 to 1948. In 1922, the Trans-Jordan Memorandum established the Emirate of Transjordan in the area of Mandatory Palestine east of the Jordan River. In 1946, the Emirate of Transjordan formally became the country of Jordan, officially removing the area from Mandatory Palestine.

A vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees, especially the peach palm, Bactris gasipaes, which is often grown for the purpose.

(colloquial) A Palestinian.

(geography, historical) The County Palatinate of the Rhine, particularly during the time between the Napoleonic Wars and the end of World War II (1816–1945), when it was in personal union with Bavaria.