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(n.) 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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Talipot'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/talipot.html. 1828.
 
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