talipot
talipot noun: a tall palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves which were used as a material to write on.
Noun
talipot (plural talipots)
- A tall palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves which were used as a material to write on.
- On Sunday, Oct. 12. being ſtored vvith all things needful for their Journey, viz. Ten Days Proviſion, a Baſin to boil their Provision in, two Calabaſhes to fetch VVater in, and tvvo great Tallipat Leaves for Tents, with Jaggory, Svveet-meats, Tobacco, Betell, Tinder-Boxes, and a Deer-Skin for...1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J[ohn] Brotherton, […], J[ohn] Graves […], A[nne] Dodd, […], and T[homas] Warner, […], →OCLC...
- The leaves of the talipot or palmyra tree were rolled and boiled and oiled so as to prepare them for use in the writing of a manuscript.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 347
- Synonyms:
- talipot palm
Synonyms of talipot
Forms of talipot
| plural | talipots |
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Origin of talipot
Borrowed from Sinhalese [script needed] (talapata), Malayalam [script needed] (tālipat), from Sanskrit [Term?].
Phrases with talipot
Questions about talipot
- What does talipot mean?
- Talipot means a tall palm tree, Corypha umbraculifera, from Sri Lanka and southern India, having very large leaves which were used as a material to write on.
- What part of speech is talipot?
- Talipot is a noun.
- What is the plural of talipot?
- The plural of talipot is talipots.
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