palm family

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsPalmaefamily PalmaePalmaceaefamily PalmaceaeArecaceaefamily Arecaceae

   Broadermonocot family

   Part ofPalmales

Questions about palm family

What does palm family mean?

palm family 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 palm family?

Close synonyms include Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, 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 palm family a common word?

palm family 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.