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wine palm
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Noun wine palm has 2 senses
- wine palm(n = noun.plant) caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm - fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago; Array is a kind of sago palm
- wine palm(n = noun.plant) borassus flabellifer, longar palm, lontar, palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm - 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; Array is a kind of fan palm
is a member of borassus, genus borassus
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