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palmetto
[ pal-met-oh, pahl-, pah-met-oh ]
noun
- any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
palmetto
/ pælˈmɛtəʊ /
noun
- any of several small chiefly tropical fan palms, esp any of the genus Sabal, of the southeastern US See also cabbage palmetto saw palmetto
- any of various other fan palms such as palms of the genera Serenoa, Thrinax, and Chamaerops
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of palmetto1
Example Sentences
In 2018 at Bay Hill, he tried to get relief from a palmetto bush and, when he was twice denied, said, “I guess my name needs to be Jordan Spieth.”
Not least among Palmetto State glories is the pimento cheeseburger.
A policeman stopped traffic on Palmetto for the cortege and second line to pass, and in a better street, people broke out dancing.
They pulled the elegant wagon on a slow pace along for a block and then made a U-turn beneath the Palmetto overpass.
Palmetto becomes Washington Avenue after it crosses Carrollton and approaches the campus of Xavier University.
The result is that Democrats and Independents will be able to continue to vote in Republican primaries in the Palmetto State.
Eudora was racing now through the briers, and weeds, and palmetto stumps, and dragging Mandy Ann with her.
It is crowned, however, with a leaf like that of the palmetto; but the tufts of the dragon tree resemble the yucca in growth.
His thoughts flew back to the palmetto clearing, where he first saw the little girl and Judy.
Was he back in the palmetto clearing, standing in the moonlight with Dora, and exacting a promise from her which broke her heart?
A log-house in a palmetto clearing, with a foolish old grandmother who did not know enough to ask or care what I was to Eudora.
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