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 |
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| Synonyms | Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm |
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| Broader (hypernym) | sago palm |
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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 |
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| Synonyms | Borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm |
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| Broader (hypernym) | fan palm |
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| Member meronym | Borassus, genus Borassus |
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| Substance holonym | bassine |
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