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Definition of Sugar palm
1. Noun. Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago.
Generic synonyms: Sago Palm
Group relationships: Arenga, Genus Arenga
Terms within: Jaggary, Jaggery, Jagghery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sugar Palm
Literary usage of Sugar palm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea by Alexander Frederick Richmond Wollaston, William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, Alfred Cort Haddon, Sidney Herbert Ray (1912)
"... Palms—The sugar palm—Drunkenness of the Natives—Drunken Vagaries— Other
Cultivation—The Native Language—No Interpreters—The Numerals—Difficulties of ..."
2. Timehri: The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of by Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana (1887)
"A profitable Sugar-palm.—The following passage from WALLACE'S " Tropical Nature "
seems worthy of more than a passing notice—particularly at this time when ..."
3. A Handbook of Tropical Gardening and Planting, with Special Reference to Ceylon by Hugh Fraser Macmillan (1914)
"... the heart of the stem contains a large quantity of •excellent sago, hence it
is sometimes known as the "sago-palm." sugar palm of India, or Wild Date. ..."
4. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"... an (aboriginal) Malayan chief or headman, next but one in authority to the
Batin, i. 506 Kabong : the sugar-palm, also called ..."
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