talipot palm

Questions about talipot palm

What does talipot palm mean?

talipot palm means "tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for writing paper".

What is another word for talipot palm?

Close synonyms include talipot, Corypha umbraculifera. 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 talipot palm a common word?

talipot palm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.