fan palm

1. Palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves (synset 112603874)
   is a type of: palm, palm tree - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
   subtypes:

   • palmetto - any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
   • borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm - tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving
   • carnauba, carnauba palm, copernicia cerifera, copernicia prunifera, wax palm - Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax
   • caranda, caranda palm, caranday, copernicia alba, copernicia australis, wax palm - South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax
   • corypha gebanga, corypha utan, gebang palm - large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers
   • latanier, latanier palm - fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region
   • corypha umbraculifera, talipot, talipot palm - tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper
   • saw palmetto, scrub palmetto, serenoa repens - small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States
   • broom palm, silver thatch, thatch palm, thatch tree, thrinax parviflora - small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto
   • key palm, silver thatch, silvertop palmetto, thrinax keyensis, thrinax microcarpa, thrinax morrisii - small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba

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