1. Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago
   "The wine palm's sap is tapped to produce jaggery";
   - jaggery palm, kitul, kittul, kitul tree, toddy palm, Caryota urens
    
2. Tall fan palm of Africa, India, and Malaysia yielding hard wood and sweet sap; leaves used for thatching and weaving
   "The wine palm's sap is fermented to make palm wine";
   - palmyra, palmyra palm, toddy palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer

Derived forms: wine palms

Type of: fan palm, sago palm

Part of: Borassus, genus Borassus

Encyclopedia: Wine palm