What is "palmettos"

Usage examples of "palmettos".

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.

Teocinte, Hota hired a carter to haul the trunk of a white oak to the crest of a hill from which he had a profile view of Griaule with the valley spreading beyond, an undulant reach of palms and palmettos, figs and aguacates, threaded by red dirt paths.

Their bearded, hollow-cheeked faces aghast, they clutched at him, tried to stab him, but his momentum was so great, he burst through their ranks without injury, and ran past the last shanties into the palms and bananas and palmettos that fringed the outskirts.