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palmĭcĕus and palmĭcĭus, a, um, adj. [1. palma], of or made of palms, palm-: palmicea sporta, Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 11 and 14.

palmĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [1. palmafero], palm-bearing, abounding in palms, palmiferous: Memphin palmiferamque Pharon, Ov. Am. 2, 13, 8: Thebae, Prop. 5, 5, 25: Idume, Sil. 3, 600; cf.: palmiferos Arabas, Ov. M. 10, 478.

palmĭger, gĕra, gĕrum, adj. [1. palmagero], palm-bearing, holding a palm-branch: Nemea, Plin. 35, 4, 10, § 27.

palmĭpĕdālis, e, adj. [palmipes], a foot and a palm in height, breadth, etc.: limen altum palmipedale, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 14: malleolus, Col. 3, 19, 1: cardines, Vitr. 10, 20.

1. palmĭpes, pĕdis, adj. [1. palma-pes], broad-footed: volucres aut palmipedum in genere sunt, uti anseres, etc., Plin. 10, 11, 13, § 29; 11, 47, 107, § 256.

2. palmĭpes, pĕdis, adj. [palmus-pes], a foot and a palm high: palmipedi intervallo, Plin. 17, 20, 32, § 143: gradus spectaculorum ne minus alti sint palmipede (al. palmopede), Vitr. 5, 6 fin.

(palmiprīmus, a false reading for pharnuprius, Plin. 14, 16, 19, § 102.)

Palmīra, ae, v. Palmyra.

Palmȳra (Palmīra), ae, f., = Παλμύρα, Παλμιρα, a city of Syria, whose ruins still remain, the seat of the empire of Odenathus and Zenobia, Plin. 5, 25, 21, § 86; 6, 28, 32, § 144.
Hence, Palmȳrēnus (Palmīr-), a, um, adj., of Palmyra: solitudines, Plin. 5, 24, 21, § 87.
Subst.: Palmȳ-rēna, ae, f., the country around Palmyra, Plin. 6, 28, 32, § 143; and Palmȳrēnus, i, m., an epithet of the emperor L. Domitius Aurelius, on account of his victory over Palmyra, Inscr. Grut. 276, 5.