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Definition of Key palm
1. Noun. Small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba.
Generic synonyms: Fan Palm
Group relationships: Genus Thrinax, Thrinax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Key Palm
Literary usage of Key palm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes by John Dryden (1821)
"Your love is then no gift: For, when the person it does not convey, 'Tis to give
gold, and not to give the key. Palm. Then ask my father. Leon. ..."
2. California: Las Vegas, Reno, Baja California by John Gottberg (1999)
"69900 Frank Sinatra Dr.. Rancho Mirage, tel. 321- 8282. 1-800-241-3333. MODERATE:
Shadow Mountain Resort and Racquet Club. 45750 San Luis Key. Palm Desert ..."
3. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1882)
"Your love is then no gift: For, when the person it does not convey, 'Tis to give
gold, and not to give the key. Palm. Then ask my father. ..."
4. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for by John Byron, John Samuel Wallis, Philip Carteret, James Cook, Joseph Banks (1785)
"... of the dip to which fhe belongs, or to fome wharf or key. PALM of the anchor,
the fame with fluke, the broad barbed ends of the two arms at the bottom ..."
5. A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to by William Fordyce MAVOR (1810)
"PAINTER, a rope employed to fasten a boat either alongside of the ship to which
she belongs, or to some \vi.arf or key. PALM, of the anchor, ..."
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