fan palm

a palm having fan-shaped leaves, as the talipot.

Origin of fan palm

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20

Hot-houses for delicate plants are hardly needed in winter, and the fan-palm flourishes as it does at Singapore.

Due West |Maturin Murray Ballou
Above rustled the mimosa, the fan-palm, and the feathery pippala, Buddha's tree.

The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity |Arthur Lillie
At the first fan-palm Blake stopped to gather a number of leaves, for their palm-leaf hats were now cracked and broken.

Into the Primitive |Robert Ames Bennet
The beach was lined with the areca, or fan-palm tree, from which the well-known liquor called toddy is procured.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia |Phillip Parker King

The fan-palm (Licuala) which grows in such numbers in the lower levels did not come under my notice above this elevation.

The Solomon Islands and Their Natives |H. B. (Henry Brougham) Guppy

fan palm

any of various palm trees, such as the talipot and palmetto, that have fan-shaped leaves Compare feather palm