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fan palm
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fan palm has 1 sense
- fan palm(n = noun.plant) Array - palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves; Array is a kind of palm, palm tree
has particulars: palmetto, borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, carnauba, carnauba palm, copernicia cerifera, copernicia prunifera, wax palm, caranda, caranda palm, caranday, copernicia alba, copernicia australis, wax palm, corypha gebanga, corypha utan, gebang palm, latanier, latanier palm, corypha umbraculifera, talipot, talipot palm, saw palmetto, scrub palmetto, serenoa repens, broom palm, silver thatch, thatch palm, thatch tree, thrinax parviflora, key palm, silver thatch, silvertop palmetto, thrinax keyensis, thrinax microcarpa, thrinax morrisii
CIDE DICTIONARY
fan palm,
Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera ) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts. [1913 Webster]
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