silver thatch

Questions about silver thatch

What does silver thatch mean?

silver thatch means "small stocky fan palm of southern Florida and Cuba". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for silver thatch?

Close synonyms include key palm, silvertop palmetto, Thrinax microcarpa, Thrinax morrisii, Thrinax keyensis. 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 silver thatch a common word?

silver thatch 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.