Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
latanier is a noun meaning "fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region". It carries one recorded sense.
fan palms of the southern United States and the Caribbean region
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for latanier come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.