PALINDROME

[pal.in.drome] n [Gk palindromos running back again, fr. palin back, again + dramein to run; akin to Gk polos axis, pole--more at pole, dromedary] (ca. 1629): a word, verse, or sentence (as "Able was I ere I saw Elba") or a number (as 1881) that reads the same backward or forward -- pal.in.drom.ic adj -- pal.in.drom.ist n