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palm-wine

palm-wine is the alternative form of palm wine.

Meaning of palm wine

Noun

palm wine (countable and uncountable, plural palm wines)

  1. Any alcoholic drink produced from the sap of palm trees; toddy.
    • Their food is rice, fish, and pisang, and their drink water; though they likewise have sagwire, or palm wine.1815, Walter Hamilton, The East India Gazetteer, London: John Murray, page 260, column 2
  2. (uncountable) A genre of popular music most closely associated with mid-20th-century Sierra Leone.

Questions about palm-wine

What is palm-wine the alternative form of?
Palm-wine is the alternative form of palm wine.

Words near palm-wine in the dictionary

  1. palm-mute
  2. palm-oil
  3. palm-oils
  4. palm-tree
  5. palm-trees
  6. palm-wine
  7. palma
  8. palma Christi
  9. Palma de Mallorca
  10. Palma-Perez
  11. Palma-Urbano

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