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FAN PALM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fan palm" is a kind of...):
palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fan palm"):
palmetto (any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves)
Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; toddy palm; wine palm (tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving)
carnauba; carnauba palm; Copernicia cerifera; Copernicia prunifera; wax palm (Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax)
caranda; caranda palm; caranday; Copernicia alba; Copernicia australis; wax palm (South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax)
Corypha gebanga; Corypha utan; gebang palm (large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers)
latanier; latanier palm (fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region)
Corypha umbraculifera; talipot; 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)
saw palmetto; scrub palmetto; Serenoa repens (small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States)
broom palm; silver thatch; thatch palm; thatch tree; Thrinax parviflora (small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto)
key palm; silver thatch; silvertop palmetto; Thrinax keyensis; Thrinax microcarpa; Thrinax morrisii (small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba)
