Palmetto

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A name given to palms of several genera and species growing in the West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States, the name is applied especially to the Chamaerops, / Sabal, Palmetto, the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. ·see Cabbage tree, under Cabbage.

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