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palmetto
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Palmetto \Pal*met"to\, n. [Dim. of palm the tree: cf. Sp. palmito.] (Bot.) A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Cham[ae]rops Palmetto, or Sabal Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.
Royal palmetto, the West Indian Sabal umbraculifera, the trunk of which, when hollowed, is used for water pipes, etc. The leaves are used for thatching, and for making hats, ropes, etc.
Saw palmetto, Sabal serrulata, a native of Georgia, South Carolina, and Florid
The nearly impassable jungle which it forms is called palmetto scru
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Spanish palmito "dwarf fan palm tree," diminutive of palma "palm tree," from Latin palma (see palm (n.2)). The suffix was subsequently Italianized. The Palmetto Flag was an emblem of South Carolina after secession (1860); the state was called Palmetto State from at least 1837.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Either of two closely related genera of New World palms, of the family Arecaceae: 2 # (taxlink Serenoa genus noshow=1) or its sole species (taxlink Serenoa repens species noshow=1), the saw palmetto, which has medicinal uses; 3 # (taxlink Sabal genus noshow=1), represented by about 15 species, some known commonly as '''palmettos''', others as fan palms. 4 A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.
WordNet
n. any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
[also: palmettoes (pl)]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 5776
Land area (2000): 4.315565 sq. miles (11.177262 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.134124 sq. miles (0.347379 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.449689 sq. miles (11.524641 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54250
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.522115 N, 82.578418 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 34221
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Housing Units (2000): 1283
Land area (2000): 5.181588 sq. miles (13.420251 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.102646 sq. miles (0.265853 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.284234 sq. miles (13.686104 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58884
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 33.521117 N, 84.667662 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30268
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Housing Units (2000): 94
Land area (2000): 0.901375 sq. miles (2.334551 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.901375 sq. miles (2.334551 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58780
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.716729 N, 91.907648 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71358
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Wikipedia
The Palmetto is a passenger train service operated by Amtrak over the from New York City south to Savannah, Georgia, via the Northeast Corridor to Washington, D.C., then via Richmond, Virginia, Fayetteville, North Carolina, and Charleston, South Carolina. The Palmetto is a shorter version of the Silver Meteor, which continues south to Miami, Florida. Between 1996 and 2002 this service was called the Silver Palm. Although currently a day train, in the past the Palmetto provided overnight sleeper service to Florida.
During fiscal year 2011, the Palmetto carried nearly 200,000 passengers, an increase of 3.8% from FY2010. The train had a total revenue of $16,438,480 during FY2011, a 7% increase over FY2010.
Palmetto (meaning "little palm") may refer to:
Palmetto is a 1998 neo-noir film directed by Volker Schlöndorff (as Volker Schlondorff) with a screenplay by E. Max Frye. It is based on the novel Just Another Sucker by James Hadley Chase. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue and Gina Gershon.
Palmetto crater is a small crater in the Descartes Highlands of the moon visited by the astronauts of Apollo 16. The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973.
On April 21, 1972, the Apollo 16 lunar module (LM) Orion landed about 1.5 km south of Palmetto, which is between the prominent North Ray and South Ray craters. The astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the area over the course of three EVAs using a Lunar Roving Vehicle, or rover. They drove along the rim of Palmetto on EVA 3, on their way to North Ray, but did not stop. As they drove by, Duke said "There's a good ejecta blanket of half-meter-size boulders around the rim of Palmetto into some of these secondary craters here." On the way back to the lunar module from North Ray, Duke took a sequence of photos of Palmetto while riding on the rover.
The crater was also used as a landmark by Apollo astronauts on previous missions. It was designated landmark DE-1/12, and astronaut Dick Gordon tracked it photographically on revolutions 42 and 44 of the Apollo 12 mission.
Palmetto crater is approximately 760 m in diameter and approximately 130 m deep. The similar-sized crater Gator lies 1 km to the southeast.
Palmetto cuts into the Cayley Formation of Imbrian age.
Usage examples of "palmetto".
Bienville, the brother, also deserves remembrance both in France and America--dismissed once but exonerated, returning later to succeed the pessimistic Cadillac and to lay the foundations of New Orleans on the only dry spot he had found on his first journey up the river, there to plant the seed of the fruits and melons and pumpkins of the garden on Dauphin Island, that were to bring forth millionfold, though they have not yet entirely crowded out the cypress and the palmetto, and the fleur-de-lis that still grows wild and flowers brilliantly at certain seasons.
She was standing at yet another dead-end pathlet, having just about lost herself amidst the palmettos.
The colonel paced across the room, sat on the arm of a chair by the window, gazing out through the palmetto fronds at the empty sunstruck street.
Today, if you were choosing the most unsightly, treacherous and truck-heavy highway in America, the Palmetto would be in the running for grand prize.
She entered a woods that was strung with air vines and cobwebs and dotted with palmettos and followed the edge of a coulee to a bayou where a flatboat loaded with Spanish moss was moored in a cluster of cypress trees.
Geoffrey plans to send part of your army to Count Joseph the Gamecock, who is gathering forces in Palmetto Province to try to hold off the southrons.
She used to be with Kochia, a merchant in Palmetto, who has the lucrative franchise from Laurus to sell affinity bonded dogs to offworlders who want them for police-style work on stage one colony planets.
With the low water of summer it finished in a sort of shrub-choked flatland of deep grass, sugarberry, palmetto, and mimosa, but its high-water course was marked by an intermittent line of cypress and magnolia, leading to a thin belt of trees that screened the higher ground.
Under their emerald shadows curious little villages of palmetto huts are drowsing, where dwell a swarthy population of Orientals,--Malay fishermen, who speak the Spanish-Creole of the Philippines as well as their own Tagal, and perpetuate in Louisiana the Catholic traditions of the Indies.
Long Tom put up somewhat of a fight when men came piling out of the mangroves and runt palmetto growth.
In a curt voice, hed sent her over the sand dunes and into the palmettos and pine trees.
Doc Savage moved among the palmettos, doubled under a scrawny tree on which grapefruit was growing not much larger than lemons, and unexpectedly found the one guard which Satz had posted.
Now they were in a seemingly endless savannah, a great plain of sawgrass broken by mounds furred thickly with palmettos and pines, and here and there a dense cypress swamp that was surrounded by a guarding growth of thorny bushes.
The wintry sun had something of geniality and warmth, the landscape lost some of its repulsiveness, the dreary palmettos had less of that hideousness which made us regard them as very fitting emblems of treason.
Spanish moss, and the ugly and useless palmettos gave novelty and interest to the view.