What does "kittul" mean?

A palm of species Caryota urens, native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that yields a sap from which sugar can be made.

What is a synonym for "kittul"?

Common synonyms include: abstract label, caryota urens, jaggery palm, kitul, kitul tree, neologism.

noun

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Noun

1
A palm of species Caryota urens, native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that yields a sap from which sugar can be made. countable, uncountable
2
fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago wordnet
3
A fiber obtained from the leaves of the palm. uncountable

From Sinhalese කිතුල් (kitul, “jaggery”).