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CARYOTA URENS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Caryota urens mean?
• CARYOTA URENS (noun)
The noun CARYOTA URENS has 1 sense:
1. fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
Familiarity information: CARYOTA URENS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Caryota urens; jaggery palm; kittul; kitul; kitul tree; toddy palm; wine palm
Hypernyms ("Caryota urens" is a kind of...):
sago palm (any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago)
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