English > fan palm: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves. |
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| Narrower | caranday, caranda, caranda palm, wax palm, Copernicia australis, Copernicia alba | South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax |
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| carnauba, carnauba palm, wax palm, Copernicia prunifera, Copernicia cerifera | Brazilian fan palm having an edible root |
| gebang palm, Corypha utan, Corypha gebanga | large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia |
| key palm, silvertop palmetto, silver thatch, Thrinax microcarpa, Thrinax morrisii, Thrinax keyensis | small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba |
| latanier, latanier palm | fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region |
| palmetto | Any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves |
| palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer | tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar |
| saw palmetto, scrub palmetto, Serenoa repens | small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States |
| talipot, talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera | tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper |
| thatch palm, thatch tree, silver thatch, broom palm, Thrinax parviflora | small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto |
| Broader | palm, palm tree | Any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves |
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