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    TALIPOT PALM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paperplay

    Synonyms:

    Corypha umbraculifera; talipot; talipot palm

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("talipot palm" is a kind of...):

    fan palm (palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves)

    Meronyms (parts of "talipot palm"):

    buntal (fine white Philippine fiber from stalks of unopened leaves of talipot palms; used in making hats)

    ola; olla (leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper)

    Holonyms ("talipot palm" is a member of...):

    Corypha; genus Corypha (large fan palms of tropical Asia to Australia)

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