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Sabal

Sabal \Sa"bal\, n. (Bot.) A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.

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sabal

n. Any palm of the genus (taxlink Sabal genus noshow=1) of American dwarf fan palms; usually called palmetto

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Sabal

Sabal is a genus of New World palms, commonly known as the palmetto. They are fan palms (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets; in some of the species, the leaflets are joined for up to half of their length. A variable portion of the leaf petiole may remain persistent on the trunk for many years after leaf fall leaving the trunk rough and spiky, but in some, the lower trunk loses these leaf bases and becomes smooth. The fruit is a drupe.

Sabal species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Paysandisia archon.

The species are native to the subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, from the Gulf coast/South Atlantic states in the southeastern USA south through the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America to Colombia and Venezuela in northern South America.

Usage examples of "sabal".

It never occurred to Sabal that a treasure plundered from a dead dwarf might constitute a trap laid by a sister dark elf, and she happily laid claim to that portion of the spoils.

Their mere proximity made Sabal wail, clutch at her heart, and fall over dead as a stone.

I threw in with Sabal simply because she was dangling from the bottom rung of the Mizzrym ladder.

Later on, the suspicious, insomniac Sabal somehow slipped away from her guards and servants and began aimlessly wandering the citadel on her own.

The Sabal Game still hummed in his mind, still guided his thoughts, but these men of the Fleet had betrayed all that.

Miniature Sabal Palms grew everywhere, mixed with flowering shrubs and Birds of Paradise.

Gary watched a green-and-white creeping toward them from the far end of the house, coming past sabal palms, dipping over the uneven ground in low gear.

Just then something large leaped from the sabal palms and landed on the log.

The watery backdrop was ringed with distant saw grass and sabal palms.

A DEA helicopter buzzed the islands, but the fishermen had pulled their boat into a cove of red mangroves and the whole small island sat under a cover of sabal palms and sea grapes and black mangroves.

United States, and finally the current state flag consisting of a diagonal red cross on a white field with a circular seal depicting an Indian maiden under a sabal palm at sunrise, casting something upon the water, possibly lottery tickets.

Greyanna and half a dozen of her minions confronted Sabal in the fungus garden, where the topiarist had trimmed the phosphorescent growths into fanciful shapes, fertilized in some cases with the ripe, diced remains of expired slaves.

Drunk or not, he had finally noticed that, despite Greyanna's efforts to keep it warm, it was moving stiffly, awkwardly, as Sabal, even in the throes of her illness, never had.