Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A palm from which palm-wine is obtained; a toddy-palm. See
toddy and toddy-palm.
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Examples
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First the screw-pines come and live among them; then the wine-palm and various creepers, and then the oil-palm; and the debris of these plants being greater and making better soil than dead mangroves, they work quicker and the mangrove is doomed.
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First the screw-pines come and live among them; then the wine-palm and various creepers, and then the oil-palm; and the debris of these plants being greater and making better soil than dead mangroves, they work quicker and the mangrove is doomed.
Travels in West Africa Mary H. Kingsley 1881
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_Caryota_ or wine-palm, whose immense decompound leaves are twelve feet long.
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On the warmer plains, the wine-palm (Cocos butyracea) is grown.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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In three days after cutting the wine-palm the hollow will be filled with a clear yellowish wine, the fermented juice of the tree, and this will continue to secrete daily for twenty days, during which the tree will have yielded some gallons of wine.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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