fan palm

Historical Examples of fan palm

• Here and there rose a fan-palm and a banyan, and the wood-oil tree was at home on rocky ground.

  Three Years in Western China

  Alexander Hosie

• Fan-palm, a name sometimes given to the talipot palm or Corўpha umbraculifĕra, a native of Ceylon and Malabar.

  The New Gresham Encyclopedia

  Various

• Hot-houses for delicate plants are hardly needed in winter, and the fan-palm flourishes as it does at Singapore.

  Due West

  Maturin Murray Ballou

• Above rustled the mimosa, the fan-palm, and the feathery pippala, Buddha's tree.

  The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity

  Arthur Lillie

• The beach was lined with the areca, or fan-palm tree, from which the well-known liquor called toddy is procured.

  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia

  Phillip Parker King