palmtree (plural palmtrees)

1. Alternative form of palm tree.
   • 1834, Isaac Nicholson Allen, untitled poem, in Congratulatory Addresses Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, at the Installation of His Grace the Duke of Wellington, , Oxford, Oxfordshire: J. Vincent, →OCLC, page 15:

     Here too, in later days, our Heber strayed / To dream of eastern suns, and palmtree shade;

   • 1927 May–June, T S Eliot, “Wanna Go Home, Baby? Fragment of an Agon”, in Samuel Roth, editor, Two Worlds Monthly , volume 3, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Two Worlds Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 149, column 2:

     Nothing to see but the palmtrees one way / And the sea the other way, / Nothing to hear but the sound of the surf.

   • 1943, Louis Golding, chapter 6, in In the Steps of Moses, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Jewish Publication Society of America, →OCLC, § 2, pages 135–136:

     We learn that the next stage was Elim, where there were twelve springs and threescore ten palmtrees. Then at last, like pillars of smoke that wavered slightly in the hot air, the first palmtrees of Ayun Musa appeared.

   • 1992, Bernardo Atxaga , translated by Margaret Jull Costa, “Klaus Hanhn”, in Obabakoak: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Pantheon Books, →ISBN, “In Search of the Last Word” section, page 241:

     The palmtrees were not to be sniffed at either. They were the tallest palmtrees in the world; they fringed the beaches.