palmetto
noun
any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.
palmettoes
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pluralof palmetto.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Then he had a glimpse of a dun colored object flitting through the scrub palmettoes under the pines.
From Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by St. George Rathborne
At the word, to the horror of Beth who did not understand, the men set fire to the low palmettoes a short distance away where there was an open space.
From A Little Florida Lady by Dorothy C. (Dorothy Charlotte) Paine
The camp was in a bend of the Del Norte, in a glade surrounded by tall cotton-woods, whose smooth trunks rose vertically out of a thick underwood of palmettoes and Spanish bayonet.
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
I was in a forest-plain, but I could find no path leading anywhere; and amid the underwood of palmettoes I could not see any great distance around me.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
Here there was no underwood, either of cane or palmettoes.
From The Boy Hunters by Unknown
