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Definition of Scrub palmetto

1. Noun. Small hardy clump-forming spiny palm of southern United States.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrub Palmetto

Literary usage of Scrub palmetto

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

1. Palmetto-leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1873)
"barns; they had split rails, and fenced in their land ; they had planted orange-trees ; they had cleared acres of the scrub-palmetto : and any one that ever ..."

2. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"Nest, of fine grasses, on the ground, beneath scrub palmetto. ... It is found only in pine woods having an undergrowth of scrub palmetto. ..."

3. Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America: With Keys to the Species, and by Frank Michler Chapman (1895)
"Nest, of fine grasses, on the ground, beneath scrub palmetto. ... It is found only in pine woods having an undergrowth of scrub palmetto. ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"scrub palmetto. Low shrub, the sts. elongated, creeping, and contorted: Ivs. standing 4-5 ft. high, the sharp-edged petioles exceeding the nearly orbicular ..."

5. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1885)
"The bottom was moist and full of tall grass ; the sides and summit of the embankment covered with a dense chapparal of oak scrub and scrub palmetto. ..."

6. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1885)
"The bottom was moist and full of tall grass ; the sides and summit of the embankment covered with a dense chapparal of oak scrub and scrub palmetto. ..."

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