wine palm
n.
Any of various palm trees having sap or juice from which wine is made.
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The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
Synonyms: jaggery palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree, toddy alm, Caryota urens
Meaning #2:
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: palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer
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