toddy palm

Questions about toddy palm

What does toddy palm mean?

toddy palm means "fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for toddy palm?

Close synonyms include wine palm, jaggery palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree. 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 toddy palm a common word?

toddy palm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.