FAN PALM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fan palm mean? 

• FAN PALM (noun)
  The noun FAN PALM has 1 sense:

1. palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves

  Familiarity information: FAN PALM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAN PALM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fan palm" is a kind of...):

palm; palm tree (any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fan palm"):

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)