What is "palmlike"

Usage examples of "palmlike".

They could chop down some of the palmlike trees to clear fields, as the early settlers of the old United States had done.

She recalled a blurred impres-sion of lush ferny undergrowth nestled about the boles of palmlike trees.

He led them into the woods, to where a clump of palmlike trees was dense enough to conceal them from the parade ground.

She recalled a blurred impression of lush ferny undergrowth nestled about the boles of palmlike trees.

Not a breath of wind stirred the palmlike leaves of the trees around him.

Inland the palmlike vegetation rose, casting long and waving shadows in the distance.

So called because of shape and construction of their leaves, palmlike or fernlike.

The ceiling of interlocked palmlike fronds did not so much block sunlight as filter it, dappling the forest floor in yellows and greens.

He held his free hand under one of the drooping fronds of the palmlike tree, and a small leafed branch dropped into it, as if on command.

The forest seemed to rush closer until the long palmlike foliage spread thick and Jumbled before them.

Ethan stripped palmlike fronds from a low growing clump, spread them on the sheltered space beneath the mat of lianas.

Without a word, Ethan stripped palmlike fronds from a low growing clump, spread them on the sheltered space beneath the mat of lianas.

It is evident that they lived almost entirely upon the bats, which they attracted by their palmlike crests.

Dotted over the face of the valley were little clusters of palmlike trees--three or four together as a rule.

Zoas wandered, in twos and threes, away from the swamp, toward a distant grove of giant redwood trees, gathering samples of ferns, palmlike cycads, tasting the nuts and fruits of the ginkgos.