Sugar Palm (Noun)
Meaning
Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The villagers have long relied on the sugar palm as a source of food, shelter, and medicine.
- Locals extract the sap of the sugar palm tree to make a traditional wine popular during festivities.
- After boiling, the sugar palm's pith can be ground into sago flour for cooking various local delicacies.
- Harvesting sugar palm sap is an essential part of rural livelihoods in certain regions of Southeast Asia.
- Tall sugar palm trees stood like sentinels guarding the quiet rural landscape dotted with wooden houses.