blue palmetto

blue palmetto
noun
: a dwarf fan palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix) of the southern United States having a creeping stem that is clothed with fibrous leaf sheaths and occasional spines and leaves that are long-stalked and somewhat glaucous

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blue palmetto,
a fan palm growing in low regions in the southeastern United States and in the West Indies.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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