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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubtribe Coryphinae — largeAustralian fan palms .
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Examples
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It also has some 700 hectares of the fan-leaved corypha or talipot palm Corypha umbraculifera, on the leaves of which Buddhist sermons were originally inscribed.
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Notoloea punctata), and three palms, namely the Corypha australis or large fan palm, the Seaforthia elegans, and another, remarkable for its prickly leaves.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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Borassus and Corypha palms are good indicators of the seasonal climates that generate deciduous forests in the region.
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Borassus and Corypha palms are good indicators of the seasonal climates that generate deciduous forests in the region.
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The great palm called “Gubbong” by the natives, a species of Corypha, is the most striking feature of the plains, where it grows by thousands and appears in three different states — in leaf, in flower and fruit, or dead.
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Buri (Corypha elate) is one of the Philippine palms with multiple uses.
Chapter 15 1992
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RAJAGOPAL, N.S. and ACHAYA, K.T. (1961) A note on the palm kernel fats: Corypha umbraculifera, Hyphaene thebaica and Areca catechu.
Chapter 5 1953
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A great variety of palms were seen in the scrubs, which were covered with fruit and berries, but only the "Seaforthia," the most graceful of the family, the 'Caryota Urens', remarkable for its star-shaped fronds and the more common 'Corypha', of which the colonial straw-hats are made, were known to the travellers.
Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880
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"Gubbong" by the natives, a species of Corypha, is the most striking feature of the plains, where it grows by thousands and appears in three different states -- in leaf, in flower and fruit, or dead.
The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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At great distances one from another, there arose a few fan-palms (Corypha tectorum), rhopalas* (chaparro), and malpighias* with coriaceous and glossy leaves.
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