Noun: palmetto
| Singular | palmetto |
| Plural | palmettos; palmettoes |
Sample Sentences
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Broad o'er my Head the verdant Cedar wave, / And high Palmetos lift their graceful Shade. [a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:]
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[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 […]. [1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 13:]
Nouns inflected like palmetto
great go,
great-go,
senhor,
afrancesado,
sprite halo,
shacko,
commando,
villiaco,
magic Negro,
Phnom Laang bent-toed gecko,
chacmool,
yerbal,
depressor,
bombolo,
bolivar,
bolívar,
buccinator,
boratto,
botargo,
slashed zero, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Spanish palmito, diminutive of palma (“palm tree”), from Latin palma. Doublet of palmite and palmito. See: Spanish Nouns '
palmito', Latin Nouns '
palma'.