sand palm

noun

A small palm, Livistona humilis, of the northern Northern Territory, that typically grows in sandy ground.

First used 20th c.
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Meanings

nounsand palm (plural sand palms)

plural sand palms

  1. AustraliaA small palm, Livistona humilis, of the northern Northern Territory, that typically grows in sandy ground.First known use 20th c.

    Breakfast was the white heart of a sand palm – succulent and bitter-sweet – and for ‘jam’ we ate bush apples and red ants with green bottoms that were so full of vitamin C they tasted like stings.

    2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, page 51
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