PALMATE

PRONUNCIATION: (PAL/PAHL/PA/PAH-mayt)

MEANING: adjective: Shaped like a hand with the fingers spread.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin palma (palm, palm tree), which also gave us palmer, palmary, and palmy. Earliest documented use: 1738.
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PSALMATE - lyrical and poetic

PALM DATE - a kind of tree tryst

DALMATE - to speckle a white dog with black dots