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Palmetto

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Noun

1. palmetto

any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Palmetto

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noun plural -tos or -toes
1. 
any of several small chiefly tropical fan palms, esp any of the genus Sabal, of the southeastern US
See also cabbage palmetto, saw palmetto
2. 
any of various other fan palms such as palms of the genera Serenoa, Thrinax, and Chamaerops

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Palmetto

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nounWord forms: plural palˈmettos or palˈmettoes
any of several fan palms; esp., a cabbage palm (Sabal palmetto) of the SE U.S.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Palmetto

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n. pl. pal·met·tos or pal·met·toes
1. See saw palmetto.
2. Any of several tropical and subtropical palms of the Americas having fan-shaped leaves, especially one of the genus Sabal, such as the cabbage palm.
3. Leaf strips of any of these plants, used in weaving.

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