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TODDY PALM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does toddy palm mean?
• TODDY PALM (noun)
The noun TODDY PALM has 2 senses:
1. fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
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
Familiarity information: TODDY PALM used as a noun is 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 ("toddy palm" is a kind of...):
sago palm (any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago)
Sense 2
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; toddy palm; wine palm
Hypernyms ("toddy palm" is a kind of...):
fan palm (palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves)
Meronyms (substance of "toddy palm"):
bassine (coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms)
Holonyms ("toddy palm" is a member of...):
Borassus; genus Borassus (palmyra)
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