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.

• 🇫🇷Nom désignant un palmier à queue de poisson poussant en Indie et dans la péninsule malaise, dont le suc sert à produire du sucre brun (jaggery) et dont le cœur du tronc fournit du sagou.

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.

   🇫🇷Palmier à sucre

   Synonymes: fishtail palmtoddy palm

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