sugar palm

English

Noun

sugar palm (plural sugar palms)

1. Any of various palm species used to produce sugar, including:
   • 2003, Thanapol (Lamduan) Chadchaidee, Thailand in My Youth, →ISBN, page 122:

     Though the sugar palm tree grows slowly, it is resistant to variable weather and has a life-span of up to 80-90 years.

   • 2008, Jules Janick, Robert E. Paull, The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts, →ISBN, page 88:

     Sugar palm is tolerant of temperatures below freezing but is damaged at –2°C.

   1. especially, Arenga pinnata
      • 1989, M. Boelen, Utilization of Tropical Foods: Trees, →ISBN, page 7:

        Arenga pinnata, the sugar palm or gomuti palm, was probably one of mankind's first sources of sugar.

   2. Borassus flabellifer (palmyra palms)
   3. Caryota urens (fishtail palm, sago palm, toddy palm, wine palm)
   4. Corypha elata (buri palm, gebang palm)
   5. Nypa fruticans (nipa palm)
   6. Phoenix spp. (date palm)
   7. Cocos nucifera (coconut palm)

References

• sugar palm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• palm sugar