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Palmite

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Pal´mite
n.1.(Bot.) A South African plant (Prionium Palmita) of the Rush family, having long serrated leaves. The stems have been used for making brushes.
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The basic meaning of the Latin word palmes/palmitis is 'shoot' or 'green branch'; the stock of a vine is woody but grapes grow on the green shoots which grow from this stock, and one of the basic techniques of viticulture is to prune away those palmites which are not bearing fruit and prune back the fruit-bearing palmites so that they will bear even more fruit.
The 'palmtwigede' Pater Noster: horticultural semantics and the old ... by Hill, Thomas D. / Medium Aevum
 
 
 
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