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wine palm

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: wine palm

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n
fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
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n
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
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: wine palm
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n 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
Type of:
sago palm
any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago
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n 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
Type of:
fan palm
palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves
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