palmyra palm

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   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

   Synonymspalmyratoddy palmwine palmlontarlongar palmBorassus flabellifer

   Broaderfan palm

   Part ofBorassus

Questions about palmyra palm

What does palmyra palm mean?

palmyra palm 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 palmyra palm?

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

palmyra palm 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.