NOUN | plant | toddy palm, wine palm, jaggery palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree, Caryota urens | fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula |
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plant | toddy palm, palmyra, palmyra palm, wine palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer | 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 |
Meaning | fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago. | |
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Synonyms | wine palm, jaggery palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree, Caryota urens | |
Broader | sago palm | Any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago |
Spanish | kitul | |
Catalan | kitul |
Meaning | 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. | |
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Synonyms | palmyra, palmyra palm, wine palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer | |
Member of | Borassus, genus Borassus | palmyra |
Broader | fan palm | palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves |
Substances | bassine | coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms |
Spanish | lontar, Palmira | |
Catalan | lontar, Palmira |
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