family palmae

Questions about family palmae

What does family palmae mean?

family palmae means "chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales".

What is another word for family palmae?

Close synonyms include Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family palmae a common word?

family palmae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.