Lexic.us

Definition of Silver thatch

1. Noun. Small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba.

2. Noun. Small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Thatch

silver salmon silver screen silver service silver solder silver spoon silver spruce silver stain silver staining silver standard silver storm

silver storms silver sulfadiazine silver sulfide silver surfer silver surfers silver thatch (current term) silver thaw silver top silver tree silver tree fern

silver trevally silver vine silver wattle silver wedding silver wedding anniversary silver whiting silver willow silverback silverbacked silverbacking

Literary usage of Silver thatch

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

1. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"(Silver-thatch Palm). A smaller palm than the preceding. ... This is about the same size and appearance as the" silver-thatch palm, but the two may be ..."

2. Cayman Islands Alive 2nd Ed by Paris Permenter, John Bigley (2003)
"Tours & Excursions History & Nature silver thatch EXCURSIONS Box 344 WB Town Hall ... Admission Two historic tours are offered by silver thatch Excursions. ..."

3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Silver-top Palmetto (Florida), Chip-hat Palm, Broom Palm (Panama), Silver Thatch-palm (Jamaica), Brick- ley, Brittle-thatch. Leaves used for plaiting hats, ..."

4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... the silver thatch- p;ilm, is usually said to yield the young unexpanded palm-leaves imported from the West Indies under the name of Palmetto Thatch, ..."

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