wine-palm
Nouns
- (n) fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm,
- (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 Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm,