Fan palm definitions

Fan palm

Fan palm as a descriptive term can refer to any of several different kinds of palms in various genera with leaves that are palmately (rather than pinnately) compound. Among these genera are: Fan palm can also be used as part of the common name of particular genera or species. Among the palms commonly known as fan palms are: The Travellers palm (Ra...
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Fan palm

• Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for u......
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fan palm

<botany> Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used ...
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Fan palm

Fan' palm` (Botany) Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot tree ( Corypha umbraculifera ) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the latte...
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Fan-Palm

Fan-palm is a name sometimes given to the taliput palm or Corypha umbraculifera, a native of Sri Lanka and Malabar. The name is also applied to the Mauritia palm (Mauritia flexuosa), a tree which grows in great abundance on the banks of the Orinoco river in South America, and which yields the natives of these regions food, wine (made from its sap),...
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