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FISHTAIL PALM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fishtail palm mean?
• FISHTAIL PALM (noun)
The noun FISHTAIL PALM has 1 sense:
1. attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage
Familiarity information: FISHTAIL PALM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("fishtail 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)
Holonyms ("fishtail palm" is a member of...):
Caryota; genus Caryota (fishtail palms)
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"Need excavates the trick." (Arabic proverb)
"New brooms sweep clean" (Dutch proverb)