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kittuls

kittuls is a plural form of kittul

kittul

Definition:

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

Class:

plant noun (plants and fungi)

Plural:

kittuls

Original source:

WordNet

Synonyms:

C. urens [abbreviation, species] | Caryota urens [species] | jaggery palm | kitul | kitul tree | toddy palm | wine palm

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Reference links

Wikipedia:

Caryota urens | solitary fishtail palm | toddy palm | wine palm | jaggery palm

Summary:

a species of flowering plant in the palm family from Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and India where they grow in fields and rain-forest clearings. The epithet urens is Latin for 'stinging' alluding to the chemicals in the fruit. They are commonly called ...  (41 of 323 words, 1 image)

Wiktionary:

wine palm | wine palms [plural] | Caryota urens [species]

Summary:

Any of several palms that have a sugary sap that can be fermented to produce palm wine; especially the fishtail palm and the palmyra palm (Borassus flabellifer).  (27 of 30 words)

Encarta:

wine palm | wine palms [plural]

Summary:

a palm tree whose fermented sap is used to make palm wine  (12 of 27 words)

Random House:

wine palm

Summary:

any of several palms from whose sap wine is made, as the coquito.  (13 of 15 words)

Merriam-Webster:

sago palm

Summary:

a plant that yields sago | any of various lofty pinnate-leaved Malaysian palms (genus Metroxylon)  (14 of 24 words, 2 senses)

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