NOUN | plant | 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 |
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Meaning | tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper. | |
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Synonyms | talipot palm, Corypha umbraculifera | |
Member of | Corypha, genus Corypha | large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia |
Parts | buntal | fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms |
ola, olla | leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper | |
Broader | fan palm | palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves |
Spanish | talipot | |
Catalan | talipot |
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