THRINAX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thrinax mean? 

• THRINAX (noun)
  The noun THRINAX has 1 sense:

1. small to medium-sized fan palms

  Familiarity information: THRINAX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRINAX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small to medium-sized fan palms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Thrinax; Thrinax

Hypernyms ("Thrinax" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Thrinax"):

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)

Holonyms ("Thrinax" is a member of...):

Arecaceae; family Arecaceae; family Palmaceae; family Palmae; palm family; Palmaceae; Palmae (chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales)