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Showy fan palm
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talipot
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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 ]
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A tall palm tree, ''Corypha umbraculifera'', from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves and flowers
Usage examples of talipot.
She curls like desert vegetation, the feathered tip of a talipot palm in bloom.