talipot

[ tal-uh-pot ]

noun

1. a tall palm, Corypha umbraculifera, of southern India and Ceylon, having large fronds used for making fans and umbrellas, for covering houses, and in place of writing paper: also grown as an ornamental.

talipot

/ ˈtælɪˌpɒt /

noun

1. a palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, of the East Indies, having large leaves that are used for fans, thatching houses, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of talipot¹

1675–85; < Malay talipat ≪ Sanskrit tālapattra, equivalent to tāla fan palm + pattra leaf

Word History and Origins

Origin of talipot¹

C17: from Bengali: palm leaf, from Sanskrit tālī fan palm + pattra leaf

Example Sentences

These are the cocoanut, the palmyra, the kittool, the areca, the date, the talipot, and the fan palm.

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There is one palm tree here––the talipot––that blooms when about forty years old with a loud noise and immegiately dies.

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The long avenues of palms of different varieties—palmyra, talipot, sago, royal, sealing-wax—and the specimens of bamboo, India rubber, and rain-tree, are unique and wonderful.

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At Peradeniya the palm family has nearly a hundred representatives, including the areca, palmyra, talipot, royal, fan, traveler's, date and cocoanut.

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The library of the temple held many richly bound Buddhist books, written on leaves made from the talipot palm.

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