palmetto

plural palmettos · plural palmettoes

1. Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.First known use 16th c.

   Broad o'er my Head the verdant Cedar wave, / And high Palmetos lift their graceful Shade.

   a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC

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   [O]n the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has evolved […] a settlement of considerable interest […].

   1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 13

2. A hat made of palmetto leaves.
3. A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.

1. A number of places in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Pickens County, Alabama.
   2. A former community in Plumas County, California.
   3. A city and historic district in Manatee County, Florida.
   4. A city mostly in Fulton County, Georgia.
   5. An unincorporated community in Oglethorpe County, Georgia.
   6. A village in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.
   7. An unincorporated community in Greene County, Missouri.
   8. A ghost town in Esmeralda County, Nevada.