Definition of Silver thatch

1. Noun. Small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba.


2. Noun. Small palm of southern Florida and West Indies closely resembling the silvertop palmetto.
Exact synonyms: Broom Palm, Thatch Palm, Thatch Tree, Thrinax Parviflora
Generic synonyms: Fan Palm
Group relationships: Genus Thrinax, Thrinax

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silver Thatch

silver salmon
silver screen
silver service
silver solder
silver spoon
silver spruce
silver stain
silver staining
silver standard
silver storm
silver storms
silver sulfadiazine
silver sulfide
silver surfer
silver surfers
silver thatch (current term)
silver thaw
silver top
silver tree
silver tree fern
silver trevally
silver vine
silver wattle
silver wedding
silver wedding anniversary
silver whiting
silver willow
silverback
silverbacked
silverbacking

Literary usage of Silver thatch

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

1. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"(Silver-thatch Palm). A smaller palm than the preceding. ... This is about the same size and appearance as the" silver-thatch palm, but the two may be ..."

2. Cayman Islands Alive 2nd Ed by Paris Permenter, John Bigley (2003)
"Tours & Excursions History & Nature silver thatch EXCURSIONS Box 344 WB Town Hall ... Admission Two historic tours are offered by silver thatch Excursions. ..."

3. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Silver-top Palmetto (Florida), Chip-hat Palm, Broom Palm (Panama), Silver Thatch-palm (Jamaica), Brick- ley, Brittle-thatch. Leaves used for plaiting hats, ..."

4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... the silver thatch- p;ilm, is usually said to yield the young unexpanded palm-leaves imported from the West Indies under the name of Palmetto Thatch, ..."

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