Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmettoes
Literary usage of Palmettoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1905)
"The long irregular line of luxuriant palmettoes capping the dunes presents a most
... Among the palmettoes FIG. I. Strand- and sand-dune vegetation, ..."
2. The Cradle of the Confederacy: Or, The Times of Troup, Quitman, and Yancey by Joseph Hodgson (1876)
"... at the North—The Mexican War — Quitman and the Palmettoes—Offer of the Mexican
Crown to General Scott—Condition of a Mongrel Population, il;c., dr. ..."
3. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"The Texas palmettoes do not belong to the same botanical species as the ...
Botanists at first supposed that the Texas palmettoes were the same as the but ..."
4. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1896)
"At intervals through this prairie are the drier elevations before mentioned At
the edge of the prairie are many round ' islands ' of saw palmettoes, ..."
5. Dixie; Or, Southern Scenes and Sketches by Julian Ralph (1895)
"These palmettoes scarcely can be said to grace any view, but they render many a
vista interesting by their peculiarity. They save themselves from utter ..."
6. A Naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12, 1861 by Henry Fairfield Osborn, John I. Northrop (1910)
"As one approached the western edge of the pines, the ground became less rocky,
the trees smaller and smaller, and the palmettoes more numerous until one ..."
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