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What is the adjective for palmy?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb palm which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

palmate
  1. (botany) Having three or more lobes or veins arising from a common point.
  2. (botany) (leaves) Having more than three leaflets arising from a common point, often in the form of a fan.
  3. (rare) Having webbed appendage; palmated.
  4. (rare) Hand-like; shaped like a hand with extended fingers
  5. Synonyms:
      6. chiroform
palmy
  1. (obsolete) Made out of palm leaves or palm sap. [15th-19th c.]
  2. Of, related to, or covered with palm trees. [from 16th c.]
  3. Prosperous, flourishing, booming or thriving. [from 17th c.]
  4. Synonyms:
      5. golden, booming, flourishing, halcyon, prosperous, roaring, lush, successful, thriving, glorious, prospering, triumphant, boomy, fortunate, healthy, rosy, going, happy, joyous, profitable, burgeoning, blooming, growing, lucrative, expanding, robust, rich, going strong, doing well, buoyant, auspicious, lucky, fruitful, strong, productive, vigorous, luxuriant, opulent, mushrooming, rewarding, developing, remunerative, progressing, wealthy, propitious, profit-making, bankable, substantial, favorable, favourable … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “The artist's final masterpiece is redolent of his troupe's young and palmy days.”
      “Your great indoors open out to even greater domains of palmy glades and views of floating islands.”
      “Community business was often conducted on the all-sand eighteen-hole golf course, with the Giza Pyramids and the palmy Nile as a backdrop.”
palmated
  1. (ornithology, zoology) Having digits connected by a thin membrane; webbed.
  2. (zoology) Having broad, flattened parts with short extensions similar to a webbed appendage.
  3. (rare) palmate
  4. Examples:
      5. “The cervina type had the smallest and the palmated the largest carcass weight, antler spread and tine numbers.”
      “The brow tine and the next or bez tine are also palmated and are directed forwards and a little downwards.”
      “While waiting for autumn to restore to his forehead its superb palmated adornments, he was haughty and seclusive.”
palmar
  1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the palm of the hand or comparable appendage
  2. (anatomy) In the direction of the palm
  3. (zoology) Of or relating to the underside of the wings of birds.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. hand-related, palm
  5. Examples:
      6. “After applying the lotion, she could feel the palmar softness of her hands.”
      “After acquiring Doppler sounds at the palmar arch, the RNFA occludes the radial artery flow.”
      “Dupuytren disease is a connective tissue disorder characterized by contracture involving the palmar aponeurosis.”
palmary
  1. Worthy of the palm; preeminent; superior.
  2. principal; chief
  3. (anatomy) palmar
  4. Synonyms:
      5. creditable, admirable, praiseworthy, meritorious, excellent, worthy, laudable, estimable, commendable, honourable, applaudable, exemplary, deserving, honorable, fine, sterling, good, outstanding, smashing, super, fab, wicked, notable, ace, beaut, splendiferous, champion, bully, brill, exceptional, respectable, noteworthy, grand, reputable, decent, reputed, tip-top, first-class, first-rate, top-notch, top-hole, worthy of admiration, well-thought-of, worthy of commendation, batting a thousand, not too shabby, meritable, valuable, praisable, appreciable … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Levski is entitled as the palmary RGC club in the Bulgarian rhythmic gymnastics history, which extends back for more than 50 years.”
      “The group is probably the palmary example in English of that coterie-and school-verse which distinguished the seventeenth century.”
      “Each of the palmary sites of which we have spoken has rendered up examples of early Greek temples.”
palmless
  1. Without palm trees.
  2. Without a palm (part of the hand).
palmoplantar
  1. (anatomy) Of, pertaining to, or affecting the palms of the hand and the soles of the foot
  2. Synonyms:
      3. volar
  3. Examples:
      4. “I've developed a peculiar palmoplantar rash after my trip to the tropical rainforest.”
palmatilobed
  1. (botany) Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common centre.
palmaceous
  1. (botany) Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.
palmlike
  1. Resembling a palm tree or some aspect of one.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The palmlike plant with its aerial roots and spiny fronds was growing in the chemically unique soil directly above the pipe.”
      “A potted succulent and a palmlike Dracaena frame a view of the sunny front yard.”
      “The foliage ranges from deep red stripes to acid greens and forms an impressive structural shape, and as it matures it assumes the look of a palmlike tree.”
palmed
  1. (zoology) Having or bearing a palm or palms.
palmiferous
  1. Bearing palms.
palmiest
  1. superlative form of palmy: most palmy
  2. Synonyms:
      3. lushest, boomiest, healthiest, rosiest, happiest, most golden, most booming, most halcyon, most prosperous, most successful, most thriving, most glorious, most triumphant, most fortunate, most joyous, most profitable, most burgeoning, most blooming, most lucrative, robustest, richest, most buoyant, most auspicious, luckiest, most fruitful, most productive, strongest, most vigorous, most opulent, most luxuriant, most substantial, wealthiest, comfortablest, most exuberant, most bankable, most propitious, most favourable, most favorable, most providential, flushest, most rampant, joyfullest, most idyllic, most encouraging, most moneymaking, soundest, busiest, most active, most profuse, most loaded … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In 1827-28, during its palmiest days, the Constitutionnel had no Roman feuilleton.”
      “These are the palmiest days in the eventful history of physical and observational astronomy.”
      “Wonderfully athletic and with matchless distribution, he performed miracles for Liverpool during their palmiest days and dropped a few horrific clangers as well.”
palming
  1. present participle of palm
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feeling, touching, stroking, caressing, fondling, fingering, thumbing, handling, manipulating, fiddling with, playing with, toying with, mauling, pawing, laying a finger on, manhandling, putting one's hand on, frisking, running hands over, patting, rubbing, palpating, tapping, brushing, grazing, nudging, pressing lightly, brushing against, osculating, brushing up against, rubbing up against, dabbing, probing, impinging upon, laying a hand on, tickling, prodding, playing about with, poking, coming into contact, petting, massaging, kneading, gentling, groping, skimming, molesting, nuzzling, loving, soothing … more
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