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Definition of Kitul tree
1. Noun. Fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago.
Generic synonyms: Sago Palm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kitul Tree
Literary usage of Kitul tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1853)
"... or kitul tree ; and the sugar ii styled jaggery. Sugar is not usually made in
Ceylon from the sugar cane ; but either from the juice of the Kitul, ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1860)
"... as the cocoa-nut is in the south ; furnishing a considerable portion of their
food, ami of the articles which they export. The kitul tree, or Caryota ..."
3. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1867)
"... who make sugar from the produce of the Caryota urens, or kitul tree; and the
sugar is styled ..."
4. Food: Its Adulterations, and the Methods for Their Detection by Arthur Hill Hassall (1876)
"... or the Palmyra tree, Girt/ot'a urens or the kitul tree of Ceylon, which
furnishes the sugar styled ..."
5. A Gazetteer of the Central Province of Ceylon (excluding Walapane) by Archibald Campbell Lawrie (1898)
"S kitul tree«, 1 mi troc, 1 tala Into, ami а пшик'" tn-i—ull theno ..."
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