HyperDic: caryota_urens

English > 1 sense of the expression Caryota urens:
NOUNplantCaryota urens, wine palm, jaggery palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree, toddy palmfishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula
English > Caryota urens: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningfishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago.
Synonymswine palm, jaggery palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree, toddy palm
Broadersago palmAny of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago
Spanishkitul
Catalankitul

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