dwarf palmetto

American  

noun

1. an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.

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Example Sentences

Nashville’s local palms, the dwarf palmetto and Sabal minor, might, at best, yield a fluffy lowercase m.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2023

Among the trees were bastard rubber-trees, and dwarf palmetto; if the latter grew more than a few feet high their tops were torn and dishevelled by the wind.

From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore

They were hung with countless strands of discolored and prickly smilax, and the impassable mud below bristled with chevaux de frise of the dwarf palmetto.

From Old Creole Days by Cable, George Washington

The greater part of East Florida consists of pine barrens--a sandy level, producing the long leaved pine and the dwarf palmetto, a low plant, with fan-like leaves, and roots of a prodigious size.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

The dwarf palmetto, which forms such a characteristic growth in Florida, extends northward in the Mississippi basin to the southern border of the Ozark uplift.

From North America by Russell, Israel C. (Cook)