jaggery palm

2 definitions found

jaggery palm - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jaggery palm \Jag"ger*y palm\
     An East Indian palm (Caryota urens) having leaves pinnate
     with wedge-shaped divisions, the petiole very stout. It is
     the principal source of jaggery, and is often cultivated for
     ornament.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

jaggery palm - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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