WordNet
palmetto
n. any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
[also: palmettoes (pl)]
palmettoes
See palmetto
Usage examples of "palmettoes".
On them are splendid royal and date palms, palmettoes and tamarinds, but occupants have found skull-and-crossbones notices upon these trees, which latterly they have obeyed, influenced thereto by seven mysterious deaths which have occurred in the vicinity.
The palmettoes were scrawny, the pointed leaves being particularly vicious.