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LADY PALM

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Meaning:

Any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lady 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 "lady palm"):

bamboo palm; fern rhapis; miniature fan palm; Rhapis excelsa (small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers)

reed rhapis; Rhapis humilis; slender lady palm (Chinese lady palm with more slender stems and finer sheath fibers than Rhapis excelsa)

Holonyms ("lady palm" is a member of...):

genus Rhapis; Rhapis (genus of small clump-forming fan palms of China and Japan)

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