wine palm
n 1: fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a
brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago [syn: {jaggery
palm}, {kitul}, {kittul}, {kitul tree}, {toddy alm}, {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}, {lontar}, {longar palm}, {Borassus
flabellifer}]