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sand palms

sand palms is the plural of sand palm.

Meaning of sand palm

Noun

sand palm (plural sand palms)

  1. (Australia) A small palm, Livistona humilis, of the northern Northern Territory, that typically grows in sandy ground.
    • 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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What is sand palms the plural of?
Sand palms is the plural of sand palm.

Words near sand palms in the dictionary

  1. sand olive
  2. sand olives
  3. sand painting
  4. sand paintings
  5. sand palm
  6. sand palms
  7. Sand Papago
  8. sand partridge
  9. sand pear
  10. sand pears
  11. sand perch

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