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Tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper
Answer for the clue "Tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper ", 7 letters:
talipot
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A tall palm tree, ''Corypha umbraculifera'', from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves and flowers
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Talipot \Tal"i*pot\, n. [Hind. t[=a]lp[=a]t the leaf of the tree.] (Bot.) A beautiful tropical palm tree ( Corypha umbraculifera ), a native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper [syn: talipot palm , Corypha umbraculifera ]
Usage examples of talipot.
She curls like desert vegetation, the feathered tip of a talipot palm in bloom.