noun
fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
• Syn: ↑wine palm, ↑kitul, ↑kittul, ↑kitul tree, ↑toddy palm, ↑Caryota urens
• Hypernyms: ↑sago palm
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noun : an East Indian palm (Caryota urens) having stout-petioled pinnate leaves with wedge-shaped divisions and being a chief source of jaggery — called also toddy palm
Useful english dictionary. 2012.