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Palm oil   /pɑm ɔɪl/   Listen
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Palm  n.  
1.
(Bot.) Any endogenous tree of the order Palmae or Palmaceae; a palm tree. Note: Palms are perennial woody plants, often of majestic size. The trunk is usually erect and rarely branched, and has a roughened exterior composed of the persistent bases of the leaf stalks. The leaves are borne in a terminal crown, and are supported on stout, sheathing, often prickly, petioles. They are usually of great size, and are either pinnately or palmately many-cleft. There are about one thousand species known, nearly all of them growing in tropical or semitropical regions. The wood, petioles, leaves, sap, and fruit of many species are invaluable in the arts and in domestic economy. Among the best known are the date palm, the cocoa palm, the fan palm, the oil palm, the wax palm, the palmyra, and the various kinds called cabbage palm and palmetto.
2.
A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing. "A great multitude... stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palme in their hands."
3.
Hence: Any symbol or token of superiority, success, or triumph; also, victory; triumph; supremacy. "The palm of martyrdom." "So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone."
Molucca palm (Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia (Molucella laevis), having a curious cup-shaped calyx.
Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food.
Palm cat (Zool.), the common paradoxure.
Palm crab (Zool.), the purse crab.
Palm oil, a vegetable oil, obtained from the fruit of several species of palms, as the African oil palm (Elaeis Guineensis), and used in the manufacture of soap and candles. See Elaeis.
Palm swift (Zool.), a small swift (Cypselus Batassiensis) which frequents the palmyra and cocoanut palms in India. Its peculiar nest is attached to the leaf of the palmyra palm.
Palm toddy. Same as Palm wine.
Palm weevil (Zool.), any one of mumerous species of very large weevils of the genus Rhynchophorus. The larvae bore into palm trees, and are called palm borers, and grugru worms. They are considered excellent food.
Palm wine, the sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the wild date palm (Phoenix sylvestrix), the palmyra, and the Caryota urens. When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy.
Palm worm, or Palmworm. (Zool.)
(a)
The larva of a palm weevil.
(b)
A centipede.





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"Palm oil" Quotes from Famous Books



... fats are salts of fatty acids and the base glycerin. The three most common of these salts are olein, found in olive oil, palmitin, in palm oil and human fat, and stearin, in lard. The first is liquid, the second semi-solid, the last solid. Most fats are mixtures of ...
— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams
... of yellow soap into a double saucepan, occasionally stirring it till it is melted, which will be in a few minutes if the water is kept boiling around it, then add a quarter of a pound of palm oil, a quarter of a pound of honey, three pennyworth of true oil of cinnamon; let all boil together another six or eight minutes; pour out and let it stand till next day, it is then fit for immediate use. If made as directed it will be found to ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... is indeed one of the most enchanting spots the eye ever rested on. The chief inhabitant of the lovely isle was Madame Ferrara, a woman of French extraction, who lived alone in a big, rambling house, surrounded by slaves, who cultivated her plantations and prepared the cocoa, palm oil, yams, and cocoanuts, for the trade that ...
— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884 • Various
... a small cup of water for each daily. When any of them took a little water from the cask, they were severely flogged. The Spaniards took Antonio, the cabin-boy and slave to Captain Ferrer, and stamped him on the shoulder with a hot iron; then put powder, palm oil, &c. upon the wound, so that they 'could know him for their slave.' The cook, a colored Spaniard, told them that on their arrival at Principe, in three days, they would have their throats cut, be chopped in pieces, and salted down for meat for the Spaniards. He pointed to some barrels ...
— A Visit To The United States In 1841 • Joseph Sturge
... to those who had not heard even of Boston. That he was the correspondent of Lowell's Weekly meant less to those who did not know that Lowell's Weekly existed. And when, in confusion, he proffered his letter of credit, the very fact that it called for a thousand pounds was, in the eyes of a "Palm Oil Ruffian," sufficient evidence that it had been forged or stolen. He soon saw that solely as a white man was he accepted and made welcome. That he was respectable, few believed, and no one cared. To be taken at his face value, to be refused at the start the benefit of the doubt, was a novel sensation; ...
— Once Upon A Time • Richard Harding Davis


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