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English noun: wine palm

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


SynonymsCaryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm


Broader (hypernym)sago palm

2. wine palm (plant) 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


SynonymsBorassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm


Broader (hypernym)fan palm


Member meronymBorassus, genus Borassus


Substance holonymbassine









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