palmyra

Questions about palmyra

What is another word for palmyra?

It depends which palmyra you mean. In the sense “tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving”, the synonyms are palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer. Across all 1 sense there are 6 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 palmyra?

WordNet records no antonym for palmyra. 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 palmyra 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 palmyra

• Full entry for palmyraAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for palmyraWhether 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.