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Noun: sugar palm  shû-gur paam
  1. Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
    "The sugar palm's sap is fermented to make palm wine";
    - gomuti, gomuti palm, Arenga pinnata

Derived forms: sugar palms

Type of: sago palm

Part of: Arenga, genus Arenga

Encyclopedia: Sugar palm