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Definition of Fern palm
1. Noun. Southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage.
Group relationships: Cycas, Genus Cycas
Generic synonyms: Cycas Revoluta, Sago Palm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fern Palm
Literary usage of Fern palm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Medullary substance of caudex edible. 623. CYCAS, L. fern palm ... Malabar Sago
Palm or fern palm, Madn-nut. Trunk yields saijo, as in the true Sago Palms, ..."
2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1867)
"A fern-palm (Zamia Frasen) attains in West ... This alimentary fern- palm, well
appreciated by the aborigines for the sake of its nuts, together with a true ..."
3. Forest Culture and Eucalyptus Trees by Ellwood Cooper (1876)
"A Fern-palm (Zamia Fraseri) attains in West Australia a height of fifteen feet.
... This alimentary Fern-palm, well appreciated by the aborigines for the ..."
4. The Panama Guide by John Owen Collins (1912)
"... Sugar palm (Arenga sacchari- fera); Sago palm (Cycas revoluta); Sago palm (2)
Cycas circinalis); fern palm ..."
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