palmetto
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The leaves of the palmetto are also used, when perfect, in the manufacture of hats, baskets and mats, and for many other purposes.
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- noun Any of several small, mostly tropical palms having fan-shaped leaves, especially one of the genus Sabal, such as S. palmetto of the southeast United States. Also called sabal.
- noun Leaf strips of any of these plants, used in weaving.
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- There is rarely any undergrowth, and the surface is either matted with the saw-palmetto, a low ever-green, or covered with a coarse and scattered grass, on which herds of half-wild cattle feed in summer, and starve in winter. — The White Slave or Memoirs of a Fugitive
- Hats and bonnets of all sorts and sizes were made of straw or palmetto, and trimmed with the same. — Memories
- 'You are not from my wing, and I do not intend getting involved with endless bickering and bureac - racy. — Waylander
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The object certainly appears to agree even in every detail with a fossil palm-root, and as the palmetto is abundant on the islands and is constantly liable to be destroyed by and ultimately enveloped in a mass of moving sand, it seemed almost unreasonable to question its being one.
— Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky -
The leaves of the palmetto are also used, when perfect, in the manufacture of hats, baskets and mats, and for many other purposes.
— Among the Trees at Elmridge
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- Spanish palmito, diminutive of palma, palm tree, from Latin; see palm2.
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