Făn'-pälm, n.

(făn′päm), n. (Bot.) The talipot-tree (Corypha umbraculifera), a native of the East Indies. It attains to the height of sixty or seventy feet, with a straight trunk crowned by a tuft of enormous leaves. The leaves, when they first appear, are folded together like a fan, and afterward spread open: they are usually eighteen feet long and fourteen wide, and are used for umbrellas, tents, coverings for houses, books, &c. The other species of the genus Corypha also have the popular name of fan-palms. Loudon.