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Noun: "The Philippine fishtail palm."

 * 1947 — Chapman, James and Ethel, Escape to the Hills,The Jacques Cattell Press, Lancaster, PA
 * I learned to strike sparks from a flintlike stone with a small iron hammer and, was more difficult, to catch the spark in the fuzz from the bark of a patican tree—fishtail palm—and then in the fine shreds of coconut husk.