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• n  any of several low-growing palms with fan-shaped leaves

• I sent to New York for a broad-brimmed hat and a string tie, and at enormous expense trained the local idiot to fan me with a palmetto leaf.
• Here is a snowy white heron flitting along a river of sea grass in the Everglades, the mangrove and palmetto serene as a Sunday morning.
• But his rivals at the palmetto-fringed Lakewood Country Club course (par: 72) were determined not to let Jack make it four tournaments in a row: the 66 only brought him a four .

News & Articles

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• Cab ride ends in jail for Palmetto man
  A 20-year-old Palmetto man was in Manatee County jail Tuesday in lieu of $500 bail after authorities say he refused to pay his $22 cab fare to Riviera Dunes in Palmetto.
  June 12, 2013 - Bradenton Herald
• Palmetto's $3.1M Sutton Park pavilion readies for July 4
  Palmetto city officials said Sutton Park¿s pavilion will be ready for Fourth of July festivities.
  June 10, 2013 - Bradenton Herald
• Palmetto Health makes changes in response to Medicare threat
  Palmetto Health Richland has made internal changes aimed at solving problems that led the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to threaten to end their contract with the hospital.
  June 7, 2013 - The State

Quotes

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• Ray Tanner in The Augusta Chronicle
  I accept the Order of the Palmetto for them,Tanner said. "It was quite an adventure for us."
• Inez Tenenbaum in WIS
  Irrespective of how good our intentions may have been, the current structure of receiving lottery-funded Palmetto, LIFE or HOPE scholarships provide a disproportionate awarding of grants that do not have to be paid back to students from... James Clyburn http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Clyburn&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGaInVKzWJCydAG2EFmr3ob06P-Bw The State http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.thestate.com/154/story/35586.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGXpz-eq0e2kd3ijt5qfSP6puQ0Qg Apr 13, 2007 71838 96031 palmetto State Superintendent of Education Inez Tenenbaum said, The Palmetto Gold and Palmetto Silver awards represent the hard work of students, teachers, administrators, parents and community members. I hope that they will serve to motivate other schools...