wine palm

Noun

• 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

• fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  palmyra , palmyra palm , toddy palm , lontar , longar palm , Borassus flabellifer , jaggery palm , kitul , kittul , kitul tree , Caryota urens