toddy palm

noun

1. any of several tropical Asian palms, as Caryota urens or Borassus flabellifer, yielding toddy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of toddy palm¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

"He was really a toddy palm worker who earned his living in a traditional way. I have a son and a daughter and I don't know how to continue living."

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Presently one of them proceeded to climb the toddy palm, and I thought they were looking for me perhaps.

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As luxuries they chew betelnut and smoke tobacco, and although intoxicants are forbidden, they tap the toddy palm and drink of its easily fermented juice.

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