fan palm
a palm having fan-shaped leaves, as the talipot.
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How to use fan palm in a sentence
I chose the fan palm, because after a few years and some attention, it will grow into a fairly large indoor plant.
7 Work-from-Home Upgrades That Boost Productivity | Jakob Schiller | December 1, 2020 | Outside OnlineThe pools, hitherto protected from evaporation by the yellow fading branches of the fan palm, begin to disappear.
The Desert World | Arthur ManginFan-palm, a name sometimes given to the talipot palm or Corўpha umbraculifĕra, a native of Ceylon and Malabar.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia | VariousThe remarkable fan-palm spread out its branches like a peacock's tail, screening vistas here and there.
Due South or Cuba Past and Present | Maturin M. BallouThe beach was lined with the areca, or fan-palm tree, from which the well-known liquor called toddy is procured.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia | Phillip Parker King
At the first fan-palm Blake stopped to gather a number of leaves, for their palm-leaf hats were now cracked and broken.
Into the Primitive | Robert Ames Bennet
British Dictionary definitions for fan palm
any of various palm trees, such as the talipot and palmetto, that have fan-shaped leaves: Compare feather palm
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