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talipot
[ tal-uh-pot ]
noun
- a tall palm, Corypha umbraculifera, of southern India and Ceylon, having large fronds used for making fans and umbrellas, for covering houses, and in place of writing paper: also grown as an ornamental.
talipot
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noun
- a palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, of the East Indies, having large leaves that are used for fans, thatching houses, etc
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of talipot1
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of talipot1
Example Sentences
These are the cocoanut, the palmyra, the kittool, the areca, the date, the talipot, and the fan palm.
There is one palm tree here––the talipot––that blooms when about forty years old with a loud noise and immegiately dies.
The long avenues of palms of different varieties—palmyra, talipot, sago, royal, sealing-wax—and the specimens of bamboo, India rubber, and rain-tree, are unique and wonderful.
At Peradeniya the palm family has nearly a hundred representatives, including the areca, palmyra, talipot, royal, fan, traveler's, date and cocoanut.
The library of the temple held many richly bound Buddhist books, written on leaves made from the talipot palm.
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