A tropical plant, Ravenala madagascariensis (not a true palm), native to Madagascar but grown elsewhere for its distinctive appearance: banana-like leaves are arranged in a flat, fan-like pattern atop a palm-like trunk.

Alternative form of traveller's palm

(botany) Any of a layer of elongated cells, near the surface of leaves, that have chloroplasts that absorb a major portion of the light energy used by the leaf

plural of palisade cell

(medicine, colloquial, ironic, slang) An obstetrics hospital with an excessively high rate of Caesarean sections.

Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 3

plural of palace coup

A (usually non-violent) coup d'état carried out by people who were already part of the group in power before the coup.

A stronger, more hoppy variety of India pale ale.

plural of double India pale ale