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talipot

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tal=i=pot

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun talipot has 1 sense

talipot(n = noun.plant) corypha umbraculifera, talipot palm - tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper; Array

is a kind of fan palm

is a member of corypha, genus corypha

has parts: buntal, ola, olla

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CIDE DICTIONARY

talipot, n. [Hind. tālpāt the leaf of the tree.].

A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into strips, as a substitute for writing paper. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

talipot, n. a tall S. Indian palm, Corypha umbraculifera, with very large fan-shaped leaves that are used as sunshades etc.

Etymology

Malayalam talipat, Hindi talpat f. Skr. talapattra f. tala palm + pattra leaf

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