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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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