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Meaning of WINE PALM

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  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
  2. [n]  fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
 
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 Synonyms: Borassus flabellifer, Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy alm, toddy palm
 
 See Also: bassine, Borassus, fan palm, genus Borassus, sago palm

 

 

 

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