sugar palm

English

Noun

sugar palm (plural sugar palms)

  1. Any of various palm species used to extract sugar, including Arenga pinnata, Borassus flabellifer, Caryota urens, Corypha elata, and Nypa fruticans.
    • 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.
    • 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.

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