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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  1. 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.
  2. noun Leaf strips of any of these plants, used in weaving.

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 'The oxygen?' —  The Poison Belt
 

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  1. Spanish palmito, diminutive of palma, palm tree, from Latin; see palm2.

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  1. Formerly palmito; from Spanish palmito (= Portuguese palmito = Italian palmisto = French palmiste), diminutive of palma, palm: see palm.
 

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/pælˈmɛtoʊ/
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