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 

• TODDY PALM (noun)

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)