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WINE PALM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; toddy palm; wine palm
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wine palm" is a kind of...):
fan palm (palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves)
Meronyms (substance of "wine palm"):
bassine (coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms)
Holonyms ("wine palm" is a member of...):
Borassus; genus Borassus (palmyra)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
Synonyms:
Caryota urens; jaggery palm; kittul; kitul; kitul tree; toddy palm; wine palm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("wine palm" is a kind of...):
sago palm (any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago)
