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In some variants the features of a more fully developed face [3] become discernible in the palmette itself, while in certain architectural uses, usually at the head of pilasters or herms, the fan of palm-fronds transforms into a male or female face and the volutes sometimes appear as breasts. Common to all these forms is the pair of volutes at ...
The palm was a symbol of Phoenicia and appeared on Punic coins. In ancient Greek, the word for palm, phoinix, was thought to be related to the ethnonym. In Archaic Greece, the palm tree was a sacred sign of Apollo, who had been born under a palm on the island of Delos. [8] The palm thus became an icon of the Delian League.
This palm grows up to 15 [7] to 20 meters tall, therefore, up to 20 meters tall. [2] The trunk diameter is up to 18 [7] to 25 centimeters. [2] It is covered densely in sharp, flattened black spines up to 20 centimeters long. The leaf stalks and leaf edges [4] and the peduncles bearing the fruit clusters have smaller spines. [7]
While the appearance of a frown varies from culture to culture, there appears to be some degree of universality to the recognition of the frown as a negative facial expression. [2] In fact, frowning as a component of anger or disgust is widely recognized as a universal expression easily recognized across cultures. [ 3 ]
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Kerriodoxa elegans, the white backed palm, is the only species of palm tree in the genus Kerriodoxa, in the family Arecaceae. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]It is an endemic ...
Nīkau grove, Paraparaumu. The nīkau palm is the only palm species endemic to mainland New Zealand. Its natural range is coastal and lowland forest on the North Island, and on the South Island as far south as Ōkārito (43°20′S) in the west and Banks Peninsula (43°5′S) in the east.