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Wine palm

noun

1.

Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago. Synonyms: Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm.

2.

Tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving. Synonyms: Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm.

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Words linked to "Wine palm" : fan palm, sago palm, bassine, Borassus, genus Borassus

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