Palma

American  

[pahl-mah] / ˈpɑl mɑ /

noun

1. Also called Palma de Mallorca.  a seaport in and the capital of the Balearic Islands, on W Majorca.

2. one of the Canary Islands, off the NW coast of Africa. 281 sq. mi. (728 sq. km). Santa Cruz de la Palma.

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Palma ¹ British  

/ ˈpalma /

noun

1. Official name: Palma de Mallorca.  the capital of the Balearic Islands, on the SW coast of Majorca: a tourist centre. Pop: 367 277 (2003 est)

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Palma ² British  

/ ˈpalma /

noun

1. Jacopo (jaˈkopo), known as Palma Vecchio, original name Jacopo Negretti. ?1480–1528, Venetian painter, noted esp for his portraits of women

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Example Sentences

Ever since its re-release in the early 1950s, “Battleship Potemkin” has been consistently rated among the greatest films ever made, and has influenced numerous creative artists, from the notorious Leni Riefenstahl in her propagandist documentaries to the painter Francis Bacon, who was inspired by the agonizing images of the Odessa Steps sequence, as was Brian De Palma in making the railroad-station scene in “The Untouchables.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In early 2008, and again in early 2018, a disease killed about 93% of D. africanum off Tenerife and La Palma, and about 90% off the islands of neighboring Madeira.

From Science Daily

In February 2022, Cano and colleagues noticed that D. africanum had started to die off in large numbers off La Palma and Gomera, islands in the western part of the Canary archipelago.

From Science Daily

"Moreover, the 2022-2023 mass mortality event affected the entire population of the species across the archipelago. For example, since 2021 there has been a 74% decrease in La Palma and a 99.7 % decrease in Tenerife."

From Science Daily

Mr. Tarantino fondly imitates Japanese manga and samurai films, Hong Kong kung-fu offerings, blaxploitation movies and Brian De Palma’s split-screen stalker motifs, all in service of a point that the B movies the director inhaled as a kid are overlooked classics.

From The Wall Street Journal