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fan palm
fan palm
noun
- any of various palm trees, such as the talipot and palmetto, that have fan-shaped leaves Compare feather palm
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fan palm1
An Americanism dating back to 1810–20
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Example Sentences
The pools, hitherto protected from evaporation by the yellow fading branches of the fan palm, begin to disappear.
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Fan-palm, a name sometimes given to the talipot palm or Corўpha umbraculifĕra, a native of Ceylon and Malabar.
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The remarkable fan-palm spread out its branches like a peacock's tail, screening vistas here and there.
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The beach was lined with the areca, or fan-palm tree, from which the well-known liquor called toddy is procured.
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At the first fan-palm Blake stopped to gather a number of leaves, for their palm-leaf hats were now cracked and broken.
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