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fan palm

fan palm

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

Origin:
1810–20, Americanism
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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fan palm
 
n
Compare feather palm any of various palm trees, such as the talipot and palmetto, that have fan-shaped leaves

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