kittuls is a plural form of kittul
a fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
plant noun (plants and fungi)
kittuls
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C. urens [abbreviation, species] | Caryota urens [species] | jaggery palm | kitul | kitul tree | toddy palm | wine palm
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)
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)
a palm tree whose fermented sap is used to make palm wine (12 of 27 words)
any of several palms from whose sap wine is made, as the coquito. (13 of 15 words)
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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