What is "toddy palm"

n. Any of several species of palm used to produce toddy or palm wine.

n. 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, palmyra palm, wine palm, lontar, longar palm, Borassus flabellifer]

Toddy palm is a common name for several species of palms used to produce palm wine. Species so used and named include:

• Borassus flabellifer, native to South and Southeast Asia, in the Indomalaya ecozone. It is a palm tree, one of the Sugar palm group, found from Indonesia to Pakistan
• Caryota, a genus of palm trees
• Cocos nucifera

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