English > genus Corypha: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia. |
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| Synonym | Corypha |
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| Member of | Palmae, family Palmae, Palmaceae, family Palmaceae, Arecaceae, family Arecaceae, palm family | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves |
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| Members | gebang palm, Corypha utan, Corypha gebanga | large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia |
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| 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 |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
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| Spanish | corypha, genus corypha |
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| Catalan | corypha, genus corypha |
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