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TALIPOT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper

Synonyms:

Corypha umbraculifera; talipot; talipot palm

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "talipot"):

buntal (fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hats)

ola; olla (leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper)

Holonyms ("talipot" is a member of...):

Corypha; genus Corypha (large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia)

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