borassus flabelliformis

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borassus flabelliformis - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Palmyra \Pal*my"ra\, n. (Bot.)
     A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a
     straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is
     found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian
     Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than
     eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by
     native writers. Its wood is largely used for building
     purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for
     making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.
     [1913 Webster]

  Jaggery \Jag"ger*y\ (j[a^]g"g[~e]r*[y^]), n. [Hind
     j[=a]gr[imac]. Cf. Sugar.]
     Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the
     fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically
     those of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis) and jaggery
     palm (Caryota urens). [Written also jagghery and
     jaggary.]
     [1913 Webster]

  Borassus \Borassus\ n.
     a genus of palm trees including the palmyra (Borassus flabellifer
     , formerly Borassus flabelliformis).
  
     Syn: genus Borassus.
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