palmae

Other forms of palmae

plural

palmaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about palmae

What does palmae mean?

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".

How many syllables are in palmae?

palmae has 2 syllables: pal-mae. The stress falls on "pal".

What is another word for palmae?

Close synonyms include family 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 palmae a common word?

palmae is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.