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

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

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

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 Russell, Israel C. (Cook)