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    WINE PALM

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    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 weavingplay

    Synonyms:

    Borassus flabellifer; longar palm; lontar; palmyra; palmyra palm; toddy palm; wine palm

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("wine palm" is a kind of...):

    fan palm (palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves)

    Meronyms (substance of "wine palm"):

    bassine (coarse leaf fiber from palmyra palms used in making brushes and brooms)

    Holonyms ("wine palm" is a member of...):

    Borassus; genus Borassus (palmyra)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sagoplay

    Synonyms:

    Caryota urens; jaggery palm; kittul; kitul; kitul tree; toddy palm; wine palm

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("wine palm" is a kind of...):

    sago palm (any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago)

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