needle palm

Questions about needle palm

What is another word for needle palm?

It depends which needle palm you mean. In the sense “yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages”, the synonyms are Adam's needle, Adam's needle-and-thread, spoonleaf yucca, Yucca filamentosa. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of needle palm?

WordNet records no antonym for needle palm. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for needle palm come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of needle palm

• Full entry for needle palmAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for needle palmWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.