lontar

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymspalmyrapalmyra palmtoddy palmwine palmlongar palmBorassus flabellifer

   Broaderfan palm

   Part ofBorassus

Other forms of lontar

plural

lontars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lontar

What does lontar mean?

lontar 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".

How many syllables are in lontar?

lontar has 2 syllables: lon-tar. The stress falls on "lon".

What is another word for lontar?

Close synonyms include palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, wine palm, longar palm. 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 lontar a common word?

lontar 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.