Definition of Sabal palmetto

1. Noun. Low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds.

Exact synonyms: Cabbage Palm, Cabbage Palmetto
Generic synonyms: Palmetto
Group relationships: Genus Sabal, Sabal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabal Palmetto

Saanen goat
Saanen goats
Saanich
Saaniches
Saaremaa
Saarinen
Saarland
Saarlander
Sab.
Saba
Sabadell
Sabaean
Sabah
Sabahan
Sabaism
Sabal palmetto (current term)
Sabaoth
Sabari
Sabba-day
Sabbat
Sabbatarian
Sabbatarianism
Sabbatarianisms
Sabbatarians
Sabbath
Sabbath-day
Sabbath school
Sabbatharian
Sabbathless
Sabbathly

Literary usage of Sabal palmetto

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"The Cabbage Palmetto (Sabal palmetto) grows in groups of a few (specimens to several hundreds or ... Mexicanum The Palmetto in Florida— Sabal palmetto. 1. ..."

2. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"On comparing the two lists it will be seen that herbs and evergreen trees (particularly Sabal palmetto and Magnolia glauca) are more abundant in the lower ..."

3. Our Flag edited by John W. Warner (2000)
"... a steamboat, and the State tree—a sabal palmetto palm. HAWAII Entered the Union in 1959 as the 50th State; flag adopted in 1816, modified in 1845. ..."

4. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"... it has been generally accepted as a fact that there was only one indigenous palm, and that this was identical with the Sabal palmetto of south-eastern ..."

5. Entomological News and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia Entomological Section (1916)
"... the surrounding groves of cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto) proving almost wholly unproductive and nearby extensive sandy stretches of short grass ..."

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