fanleaf
nounEtymology From fan + leaf.
1
Any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems.
2
Any member of Fioria, a genus of the family Malvaceae.
3
The Grapevine fanleaf virus.
4
A fan palm.
- It is probably the Livistona rotundifolia of botanists, and is the most complete and beautiful fan-leaf I have ever seen, serving admirably for folding into water-buckets and impromptu baskets, as well as for thatching and other purposes.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 422: