Meanings
plural jacitara palms
- A spiny, climbing palm, Desmoncus polyacanthos, native to the southern Caribbean and tropical South America.
1 more example
Climbing plants are monstrous and luxuriant, but others which have never been known to climb elsewhere learn the art as an escape from that somber shadow, so that the common nettle, the jasmine, and even the jacitara palm tree can be seen circling the stems of the cedars and striving to reach their crowns.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Origin
From Portuguese jacitara, from the name of the plant in Tupi-Guarani.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
jacitara palm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jacitara%20palm
“jacitara palm.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jacitara%20palm. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jacitara palm,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jacitara%20palm.
Source: jacitara palm on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.