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- English Word Palmitic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62¡ C.
- English Word Palmitin Definition A solid crystallizable fat, found abundantly in animals and in vegetables. It occurs mixed with stearin and olein in the fat of animal tissues, with olein and butyrin in butter, with olein in olive oil, etc. Chemically, it is a glyceride of palmitic acid, three molecules of palmitic acid being united to one molecule of glyceryl, and hence it is technically called tripalmitin, or glyceryl tripalmitate.
- English Word Palmitolic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleic acid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.
- English Word Palmitone Definition The ketone of palmitic acid.
- English Word Palmy Definition Bearing palms; abounding in palms; derived from palms; as, a palmy shore.
- English Word Palmy Definition Worthy of the palm; flourishing; prosperous.
- English Word Palmyra Definition A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
- English Word Palola Definition An annelid (Palola viridis) which, at certain seasons of the year, swarms at the surface of the sea about some of the Pacific Islands, where it is collected for food.
- English Word Palp Definition Same as Palpus.
- English Word Palp Definition To have a distinct touch or feeling of; to feel.
- English Word Palpability Definition The quality of being palpable, or perceptible by the touch.
- English Word Palpable Definition Capable of being touched and felt; perceptible by the touch; as, a palpable form.
- English Word Palpable Definition Easily perceptible; plain; distinct; obvious; readily perceived and detected; gross; as, palpable imposture; palpable absurdity; palpable errors.
- English Word Palpation Definition Act of touching or feeling.
- English Word Palpation Definition Examination of a patient by touch.
- English Word Palpator Definition One of a family of clavicorn beetles, including those which have very long maxillary palpi.
- English Word Palpebra Definition The eyelid.
- English Word Palpebrae Definition of Palpebra
- English Word Palpebral Definition Of or pertaining to the eyelids.
- English Word Palped Definition Having a palpus.