toddy palm

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

  toddy 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]
      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, wine palm, lontar, longar   palm
         , Borassus flabellifer]