WINE PALM

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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:

Nouns denoting plants

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