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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dwarf palmetto

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

From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2023

To the whole scene the246 dwarf palmetto gives a semi-tropic aspect.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

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 Israel C. (Cook) Russell

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 George Washington Cable

Tall pines, a thin growth, stood wherever we turned our eyes, and the ground was covered with the dwarf palmetto, and the whortleberry, which is here an evergreen.

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

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