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Definition of fan palm in English English dictionary
- The leaves of the latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, and roofs
- When cut up, they are used for books and manuscripts
- and especially the great talipot tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya
- palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves
- Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamærops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in the West Indies, Florida, etc
- A palm tree having palmately divided, fanlike leaves
- miniature fan palm
- small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers
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/ˈfan ˈpälm/ /ˈfæn ˈpɑːlm/
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