palmetto

Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.

Broad o'er my Head the verdant Cedar wave, / And high Palmetos lift their graceful Shade.

[O]n the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has evolved […] a settlement of considerable interest […].

A hat made of palmetto leaves.

A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.