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Definition of Fan palm
1. Noun. Palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves.
Specialized synonyms: Palmetto, Borassus Flabellifer, Longar Palm, Lontar, Palmyra, Palmyra Palm, Toddy Palm, Wine Palm, Carnauba, Carnauba Palm, Copernicia Cerifera, Copernicia Prunifera, Wax Palm, Caranda, Caranda Palm, Caranday, Copernicia Alba, Copernicia Australis, Wax Palm, Corypha Gebanga, Corypha Utan, Gebang Palm, Latanier, Latanier Palm, Corypha Umbraculifera, Talipot, Talipot Palm, Saw Palmetto, Scrub Palmetto, Serenoa Repens, Broom Palm, Silver Thatch, Thatch Palm, Thatch Tree, Thrinax Parviflora, Key Palm, Silver Thatch, Silvertop Palmetto, Thrinax Keyensis, Thrinax Microcarpa, Thrinax Morrisii
Definition of Fan palm
1. Noun. (botany) Any palm tree with fan-shaped or radiate leaves. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Fan palm
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fan Palm
Literary usage of Fan palm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"fan palm. The name given to various species of Palm-trees, having leaves of a
fan shaped form ; but especially applied to ..."
2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... Fr.; Zwergpalme, Ger. ; the dwarf fan palm, or Palmetto; N. Du Ham., iii. t.
58., and our fig. 2404<. ; is a native of the south of Europe, and, ..."
3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1911)
"—Hartley Coleridge IN THE HOME OF THE fan palm BY CHARLES FRANCIS SAUNDERS.
'T'HR canyons of the eastern side of the San Jacinto •*• Mountain, ..."
4. Works of Art and Artists in England by Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1838)
"... School—The Madonna, with the fan palm, by Raphael—Lombard School—Venetian
School; the Three Ages of Life ; Venus SL la Coquille; Diana and Ac- ..."
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