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palmettos

palmettos is the plural of palmetto.

Meaning of palmetto

Noun

palmetto (plural palmettos or palmettoes)

  1. Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.
    • 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
  2. A hat made of palmetto leaves.
  3. A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.

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Phrases with palmettos

Questions about palmettos

What is palmettos the plural of?
Palmettos is the plural of palmetto.

Words near palmettos in the dictionary

  1. palmetto skipper
  2. palmetto skippers
  3. Palmetto State
  4. Palmetto Stater
  5. palmettoes
  6. palmettos
  7. palmetum
  8. palmflies
  9. palmfly
  10. palmful
  11. palmfuls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palmettos (page history and authors); palmetto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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