WordNet
scrub palmetto
n. small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States [syn: saw palmetto, Serenoa repens]
Usage examples of "scrub palmetto".
Then in midmorning on a fine April Saturday, I drove over to Alligator Alley and we went humming westward past the wetlands, the scrub palmetto, the dwarf cypress.
On arriving, I tied the dory to a mangrove root and immediately became lost in a stand of scrub palmetto.
Returned later that same year, stayed a bit longer, burned off his plantation, which had mostly gone back to scrub palmetto.
The boy followed him through the woods of pine and oak and scrub palmetto, and up the long slope of a dune.