- Chinese tree with fan shaped leaves - A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and
Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so
like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the
maidenhair tree.
- A beautiful tropical palm tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a
native of Ceylon and the Malabar coast. It has a trunk sixty or seventy
feet high, bearing a crown of gigantic fan-shaped leaves which are used
as umbrellas and as fans in ceremonial processions, and, when cut into
strips, as a substitute for writing paper.
- Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the
Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax
in the West Indies, Florida, etc.; and especially the great talipot
tree (Corypha umbraculifera) of Ceylon and Malaya. The leaves of the
latter are often eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for
umbrellas, tents, and roofs. When cut up, they are used for books and
manuscripts.
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