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Webster 1913 Edition
Talipot
Tal′i-pot
,Noun.
[Hind.
tālpāt
the leaf of the tree.] (Bot.)
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.