talipot
/tal-uh-pot/US // ˈtæl əˌpɒt //UK // (ˈtælɪˌpɒt) //
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n.名词 noun
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- : a tall palm, Corypha umbraculifera, of southern India and Ceylon, having large fronds used for making fans and umbrellas, for covering houses, and in place of writing paper: also grown as an ornamental.
Examples
Fan-palm, a name sometimes given to the talipot palm or Corўpha umbraculifĕra, a native of Ceylon and Malabar.
Talipot, tal′i-pot, n. an East Indian palm with fan-shaped leaves.
The library of the temple held many richly bound Buddhist books, written on leaves made from the talipot palm.
The lines are either hemp, cotton, or the fibre of the talipot palm (Caryota urens), which is obtained by maceration.
In Orissa, till lately, writing was done on a talipot palm-leaf, on which the letters were scratched with an iron stylus.
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