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palmiet|ˈpalmɪt|
[Afrikaans, a. Du., f. Sp. and Pg. palmito, dim. of palma palm.]
A South African plant found in swamps and along river-banks, Prionium serratum (= P. palmita), of the family Juncaceæ, which has a woody stem, topped with a cluster of long, narrow, serrated leaves two or three feet long, and small, greenish-gold flowers borne in a large panicle.
1785G. Forster tr. Sparrman's Voy. Cape Good Hope I. iii. 42 A little river or stream covered with palmites, a kind of acorus with a thick stem and broad leaves, which grow out from the top, as they do in the palm-tree, a circumstance from which the plant takes its name. 1800A. Barnard Let. 14 May in S. Afr. a Century Ago (1901) xvii. 286, I am living out of town.., removed from all party work, except working parties in our fields, rooting up of palmite roots, and planting of fir trees and potatoes. 1822W. J. Burchell Trav. S. Afr. I. iv. 89 The boors believe this brownness [of the water] to be caused by the great quantity of Palmite (Palmiet), which every where grows in these streams. Ibid. 91 Most of the rivers which we passed in this excursion, are choked up with the plant called Palmiet by the colonists, and from which this one [sc. river] derives its name. 1868J. Chapman Trav. S. Afr. I. ix. 193 The flower and root of the bulrush as well as the tsetla root or palmiet..forms the main article of the diet of the Makobas. 1871H. H. Dugmore Reminisc. Albany Settler i. 17 The beaver gave way to the home⁓made palmiet or coffee straw, and the tiger-skin cap. 1944V. Pohl Adventures Boer Family xvi. 106 The only hats they possessed were those made by my mother and Sophia from straw, palmiet (a water plant) or mealie leaves. 1952Cape Times 20 Sept. 3/2 The boat..was steered to a clump of palmiet. 1973Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. VIII. 439/2 Palmiet... This waterside plant..has a fairly stout, erect or decumbent, woody stem covered with old leaf-bases. |