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]