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Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especially Gorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.
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n.
Quality or state of being flabby.
n.
A fan.
a.
Flabelliform.
v. t.
To astonish; to strike with wonder, esp. by extraordinary statements.
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Flabellate on both sides.
n.
A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
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Having many nerves diverging radiately from the base; -- said of a leaf.
n.
A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis.
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Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.
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Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis).
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Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.
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Having the form of a fan; fan-shaped; flabellate.
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Liable to be blown about.
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The act of keeping fractured limbs cool by the use of a fan or some other contrivance.
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A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers.
adv.
In a flabby manner.
n.
The state of being flabbergasted.
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Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; wanting firmness; flaccid; as, flabby flesh.
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Flaccid; flabby, as flesh.
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