Definitions for talipot

talipot tal·i·pot

Spelling: [tal-uh-pot]
IPA: /ˈtæl əˌpɒt/

Talipot is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in talipot (ailoptt).

Definitions for talipot

noun

  1. a tall palm, Corypha umbraculifera, of southern India and Ceylon, having large fronds used for making fans and umbrellas, for covering houses, and in place of writing paper: also grown as an ornamental.

Origin of talipot

1675-85; Malay talipat ≪ Sanskrit tālapattra, equivalent to tāla fan palm + pattra leaf

Examples for talipot

Fan-palm, a name sometimes given to the talipot palm or Corўpha umbraculifĕra, a native of Ceylon and Malabar.

talipot, tal′i-pot, n. an East Indian palm with fan-shaped leaves.

The lines are either hemp, cotton, or the fibre of the talipot palm (Caryota urens), which is obtained by maceration.

The library of the temple held many richly bound Buddhist books, written on leaves made from the talipot palm.

There is one palm tree here––the talipot––that blooms when about forty years old with a loud noise and immegiately dies.

Deer-hides were pegged down to form a carpet upon the floors, and the walls were neatly covered with talipot leaves.

In Orissa, till lately, writing was done on a talipot palm-leaf, on which the letters were scratched with an iron stylus.

Word Value for talipot
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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