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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Two pale bluish white eggs, generally with brown markings, are laid on the ground under logs, bushes, palmettoes, etc., in March and April.
From What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season by Frank M. Chapman
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
It is the tread of footsteps, accompanied by a swishing among the palmettoes, that form an underwood along the edge of the swamp.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
The Indians were concealed in the palmettoes, about two hundred yards distant.
From General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright
It was covered before night with young dwarf palmettoes, which Mandy Ann laid upon it with a thought that they would keep her young mistress cool.
From The Cromptons by Mary Jane Holmes
