bamboo palm

Questions about bamboo palm

What does bamboo palm mean?

bamboo palm means "small graceful palm with reedlike stems and leaf bases clothed with loose coarse fibers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for bamboo palm?

Close synonyms include miniature fan palm, fern rhapis, Rhapis excelsa, Raffia vinifera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bamboo palm a common word?

bamboo palm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.