kitul

A noun referring to a fishtail palm native to India and the Malay Peninsula, whose sap is used to produce a brown sugar (jaggery) and whose trunk pith yields sago.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa una palmera de cola de pez propia de la India y la península malaya, cuyo jugo se usa para producir azúcar moreno (jaggery) y cuyo tronco proporciona sagú.

1. Fishtail palm C1 formal scientific

   A type of tropical palm tree (Caryota urens) native to South and Southeast Asia, cultivated for its sap which yields jaggery (a type of brown sugar) and whose trunk pith provides sago.

   • The kitul palm is commonly grown in parts of India and Sri Lanka for its sweet sap.
   • Jaggery made from kitul sap is a popular natural sweetener in traditional desserts.
   • Local communities extract sago from the pith of the kitul trunk.
   • Kitul inflorescences are tapped to collect the sap for processing.

   🇪🇸Palma de cola de pez

   Sinónimos: fishtail palmtoddy palm

• kituls plural form
• kituls' possessive plural form
• kitul's possessive singular form