Meaning of Palmetto | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.
2. A hat made of palmetto leaves.
3. A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.

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Examples

“Broad o'er my Head the verdant Cedar wave, / And high Palmetos lift their graceful Shade.”

“[O]n the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has evolved […] a settlement of considerable interest […].”

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