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Noun

1. 1
   Any of several palms that have a sugary sap that can be fermented to produce palm wine; especially the fishtail palm (Caryota urens) and the palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer).
2. 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 wordnet
3. 3
   fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago wordnet

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borassus flabellifercaryota urensjaggery palmkittulkitulkitul tree