Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A large fan-leaved palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of South Asia that lives up to 80 years and flowers only once, producing a huge inflorescence and dying shortly after the fruits mature.
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- noun A tall
palm tree , Corypha umbraculifera, fromSri Lanka and southernIndia , having very largeleaves andflowers
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- noun tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Ultimately from Sanskrit tālapattram, palm leaf used for writing : tālaḥ, palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer); see toddy + pattram, leaf; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]
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