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PALMETTO
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
Irregular inflected form: palmettoes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("palmetto" is a kind of...):
fan palm (palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "palmetto"):
cabbage palm; cabbage palmetto; Sabal palmetto (low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds)