kentia
noun
ken·tia
ˈkentēə
1
capitalized : a genus of pinnate-leaved palms that are natives of Australia and the East Indies and have spadices with angled branchlets and flowers with six stamens
2
plural -s : any of several palms formerly assigned to the genus Kentia: such as
a
: either of two feather palms (Howea forsteriana and H. belmoriana) from Lord Howe Island that are extensively cultivated for their ornamental foliage
b
: umbrella palm sense 1
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from William Kent †ab 1828 Dutch gardener and traveler in the Orient + New Latin -ia
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- be back
- be back in the swing of things
- be best friends with
- be bunkered
- be bursting
- be bursting at the seams
- be careful what you wish for
- be carried away
- be caught in a storm
- be concentrated
- be conditioned on
- be conditioned on/upon
- be conditioned upon
- be cooking
- be correlated with
- be curtains for
- be cut up about
- be damned
- be deeply invested in
- be descended from
- be done with
- be done with it
- be for the high jump
- be frank