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palmetto
any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves
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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
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Copernicia cerifera, Copernicia prunifera, carnauba, carnauba palm, wax palm
Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax
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Copernicia alba, Copernicia australis, caranda, caranda palm, caranday, wax palm
South American palm yielding a wax similar to carnauba wax
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Corypha gebanga, Corypha utan, gebang palm
large-leaved palm of Malay to Philippines and northern Australia; leaves used for thatching or plaiting into containers
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latanier, latanier palm
fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region
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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
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Serenoa repens, saw palmetto, scrub palmetto
small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States
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Thrinax parviflora, broom palm, silver thatch, thatch palm, thatch tree
small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto
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Thrinax keyensis, Thrinax microcarpa, Thrinax morrisii, key palm, silver thatch, silvertop palmetto
small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba
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Sabal palmetto, cabbage palm, cabbage palmetto
low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds
