PALMETTO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: palmettoes   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("palmetto" is a kind of...):

fan palm (palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "palmetto"):

cabbage palm; cabbage palmetto; Sabal palmetto (low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds)

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