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palmetto

/pal-met-oh, pahl-, pah-met-oh/US // pælˈmɛt oʊ, pɑl-, pɑˈmɛt oʊ //UK // (pælˈmɛtəʊ) //

棕榈树,棕榈,棕榈果,棕榈草

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural pal·met·tos, pal·met·toes.

    • : any of various palms having fan-shaped leaves, as of the genera Sabal, Serenoa, and Thrinax.

Examples

  • In 2018 at Bay Hill, he tried to get relief from a palmetto bush and, when he was twice denied, said, “I guess my name needs to be Jordan Spieth.”

  • Not least among Palmetto State glories is the pimento cheeseburger.

  • A policeman stopped traffic on Palmetto for the cortege and second line to pass, and in a better street, people broke out dancing.

  • They pulled the elegant wagon on a slow pace along for a block and then made a U-turn beneath the Palmetto overpass.

  • Palmetto becomes Washington Avenue after it crosses Carrollton and approaches the campus of Xavier University.

  • The result is that Democrats and Independents will be able to continue to vote in Republican primaries in the Palmetto State.

  • Eudora was racing now through the briers, and weeds, and palmetto stumps, and dragging Mandy Ann with her.

  • It is crowned, however, with a leaf like that of the palmetto; but the tufts of the dragon tree resemble the yucca in growth.

  • His thoughts flew back to the palmetto clearing, where he first saw the little girl and Judy.

  • Was he back in the palmetto clearing, standing in the moonlight with Dora, and exacting a promise from her which broke her heart?

  • A log-house in a palmetto clearing, with a foolish old grandmother who did not know enough to ask or care what I was to Eudora.