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fan palm

noun

  1. a palm having fan-shaped leaves, as the talipot.


fan palm

noun

  1. 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.

Fan-palm, a name sometimes given to the talipot palm or Corўpha umbraculifĕra, a native of Ceylon and Malabar.

The remarkable fan-palm spread out its branches like a peacock's tail, screening vistas here and there.

The beach was lined with the areca, or fan-palm tree, from which the well-known liquor called toddy is procured.

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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