Citations:patican
English citations of patican
Noun: "The Philippine fishtail palm." edit
- 1947 — Chapman, James and Ethel, Escape to the Hills,The Jacques Cattell Press, Lancaster, PA
- I learned to strike sparks from a flintlike stone with a small iron hammer and, was more difficult, to catch the spark in the fuzz from the bark of a patican tree—fishtail palm—and then in the fine shreds of coconut husk.