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tallipot

tallipot is the alternative form of talipot.

Meaning of talipot

Noun

talipot (plural talipots)

  1. 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...
    Synonyms:
    talipot palm

Forms of tallipot

pluraltallipots

Questions about tallipot

What is tallipot the alternative form of?
Tallipot is the alternative form of talipot.

Words near tallipot in the dictionary

  1. Tallington
  2. Tallini
  3. Tallinn
  4. Tallinner
  5. Tallinners
  6. tallipot
  7. tallipots
  8. tallis
  9. tallises
  10. tallish
  11. tallisim

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