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sugar palms

sugar palms is the plural of sugar palm.

Meaning of sugar palm

Noun

sugar palm (plural sugar palms)

  1. Any member of certain species of palm used to produce sugar, including
    • Though the sugar palm tree grows slowly, it is resistant to variable weather and has a life-span of up to 80-90 years.2003, Thanapol (Lamduan) Chadchaidee, Thailand in My Youth, →ISBN, page 122
  2. especially, Arenga pinnata, a feather palm.
    • Arenga pinnata, the sugar palm or gomuti palm, was probably one of mankind's first sources of sugar.1989, M. Boelen, Utilization of Tropical Foods: Trees, →ISBN, page 7
  3. Borassus flabellifer (palmyra palms)
  4. Caryota urens (fishtail palm, sago palm, toddy palm, wine palm)
  5. Corypha elata (buri palm, gebang palm)
  6. Nypa fruticans (nipa palm)

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Questions about sugar palms

What is sugar palms the plural of?
Sugar palms is the plural of sugar palm.

Words near sugar palms in the dictionary

  1. sugar of Saturn
  2. sugar off
  3. sugar on snow
  4. sugar out
  5. sugar palm
  6. sugar palms
  7. sugar paper
  8. sugar papers
  9. sugar parent
  10. sugar parents
  11. sugar paste

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