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Fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia
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livistona
Word definitions for livistona in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Livistona \Livistona\ n. A genus of fan palms of Asia and Australia and Malaysia. Syn: genus Livistona .
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Livistona is a genus of palms (family Arecaceae ), native to southern and southeastern Asia , Australasia , and the Horn of Africa . They are fan palms , the leaves with an armed petiole terminating in a rounded, costapalmate fan of numerous leaflets. Livistona ...
Usage examples of livistona.
Archontophoenix and Livistona palms, and the giant Alsophila ferns-Cooperi and australis-and the promontories stood with their shaggy westringias and hibbertias and hardenbergias and white button-flowers all aglow, staring, staring, staring out over the blue lazy ocean, and casting blue and purple shadows across the yellow sand of the beach, even reaching to the masses of white foam that were swept ashore, when the little breakers were dashed to pieces, the enemy was seen on the top, above the dark wall of ironstone, right out on the edge, waving spears, and he was heard shouting to the family of Arrilla down on the beach.