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Definition of Latanier palm

1. Noun. Fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Latanier Palm

Literary usage of Latanier palm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Buccaneers of America, a True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, Henry Powell, Basil Ringrose (1911)
"The Latanier-palm is not so tall as the Wine-palm, although it has almost the same shape, only that the leaves are very like the fans our women use. ..."

2. The History of the Buccaneers of America: Containing Detailed Accounts of by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, Basil Ringrose, Ravenau de Lussan, ---- de Montauban, Oliver I. Perkins (1856)
"The latanier palm is not so tali as the wine palm, but almost of the same shape, only the leaves are like the fans our women use. ..."

3. Catalogue of the British Colonies by Great Britain (1878)
"A Packet of Leaves of the latanier palm. Three Packets of Leaves of the Cocoanut Palm. One Packet of Leaves of the Double Cocoanut Palm. ..."

4. The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and by François Le Guat, Samuel Pasfield Oliver (1891)
"—Here are shown the land-tortoises, the dodo, the latanier palm, the Sabos forcados, the Indian Crow, so called (but which Professor Newton considers to be ..."

5. Universal Geography: Or, a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1826)
"... as lias been supposed,) but they generally use the " leaves of the latanier palm. Their writing, in the first instance, consists of mere scratching with ..."

6. The Fountain of Youth by Charles Tenney Jackson, Outing Publishing Company (1914)
"hear Ponto and Flora barking away in a bit of latanier palm scrub. Over rotten logs and shaking bog and under vines and gray moss plumes hanging from the ..."

7. The Buccaneers of America: A True Account of the Most Remarkable Assaults by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, Basil Ringrose (1893)
"The Latanier-palm is not so tall as the Wine-palm, although it has almost the same shape, only that the leaves are very like the fans our women use. ..."

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