borassus flabellifer

Questions about borassus flabellifer

What does borassus flabellifer mean?

borassus flabellifer means "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".

What is another word for borassus flabellifer?

Close synonyms include palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, lontar. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is borassus flabellifer a common word?

borassus flabellifer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.