HyperDic: sugar_palm

English > 1 sense of the expression sugar palm:
NOUNplantsugar palm, gomuti, gomuti palm, Arenga pinnataMalaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers
English > sugar palm: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningMalaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago.
Synonymsgomuti, gomuti palm, Arenga pinnata
Member ofArenga, genus ArengaA genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees
Broadersago palmAny of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago
Substancesjaggery, jagghery, jaggaryunrefined brown sugar made from palm sap
Spanishgomuti
Catalangomuti

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