palmetto
English
editEtymology
editFrom Spanish palmito, diminutive of palma (“palm tree”), from Latin palma.
Noun
editpalmetto (plural palmettos or palmettoes)
- Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens. [from 16th c.]
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- Broad o'er my Head the verdant Cedar wave, / And high Palmetos lift their graceful Shade.
- 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 13:
- [O]n the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has evolved […] a settlement of considerable interest […] .
- A hat made of palmetto leaves.
- A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.
Coordinate terms
edit- (South Carolina native or resident): palmetta (feminine)
Derived terms
edit- Bermuda palmetto (Sabal bermudana)
- Birmingham palmetto (Sabal 'Birmingham')
- bush palmetto (Sabal minor)
- cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto)
- dwarf palmetto (Sabal minor)
- Hispaniola palmetto (Sabal domingensis)
- Mexican palmetto (Sabal mexicana)
- palmetto bug (Periplaneta americana)
- palmetto skipper (Euphyes arpa)
- Rio Grande palmetto (Sabal mexicana)
- royal palmetto (Sabal pumos)
- saw palmetto (Chamaerops humilis)
- saw palmetto (Serenoa repens)
- scrub palmetto (Sabal etonia)
- Sonoran palmetto (Sabal uresana)
- Texas palmetto (Sabal mexicana)
- Yucatán palmetto (Sabal gretheriae)
References
edit- “palmetto”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- palmetto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Serenoa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Sabal on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Serenoa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Sabal on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons