erythea

noun

er·​y·​thea

-ˈthēə

1

capitalized : a genus of Californian and Mexican slender fan palms with smooth trunks and large orbicular leaves whose lobes bear white filaments

2

plural -s : any palm of the genus Erythea

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Greek Erytheia, one of the Hesperides

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