| any of several tropical Asian palms, as Caryota urens or Borassus flabellifer, yielding toddy. |
| toddy palm | |
noun | |
| 1. | fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago [syn: wine palm] |
| 2. | 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 [syn: palmyra] |