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 wine palm
      n 1: fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a
           brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago [syn: jaggery
           palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree, toddy alm, Caryota
           urens]
      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 [syn: palmyra,
          palmyra palm, toddy palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus
         flabellifer]