English

Noun

sugar palm ‎(plural sugar palms)

1. Any of various palm species used to extract sugar, including Arenga pinnata, Borassus flabellifer, Caryota urens, Corypha elata, and Nypa fruticans.
   • 1989, M. Boelen, Utilization of Tropical Foods: Trees, ISBN 9251027765, page 7:

     Arenga pinnata, the sugar palm or gomuti palm, was probably one of mankind's first sources of sugar.

   • 2003, Thanapol (Lamduan) Chadchaidee, Thailand in My Youth, ISBN 6162450384, page 122:

     Though the sugar palm tree grows slowly, it is resistant to variable weather and has a life-span of up to 80-90 years.

   • 2008, Jules Janick & ‎Robert E. Paull, The Encyclopedia of Fruit and Nuts, ISBN 0851996388, page 88:

     Sugar palm is tolerant of temperatures below freezing but is damaged at –2°C.