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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 talipot
 一種大棕櫚樹

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tal·i·pot n.  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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 talipot
      n : tall palm of southern India and Sri Lanka with gigantic
          leaves used as umbrellas and fans or cut into strips for
          writing paper [syn: talipot palm, Corypha
           umbraculifera]