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Definition: PALM WINE |
PALM WINE1. The sap of several species of palms, especially, in India, of the wild date palm (Ph[oe]nix sylvestrix), the palmyra, and the Caryota urens . When fermented it yields by distillation arrack, and by evaporation jaggery. Called also palm toddy . |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | Prepared from the sap of certain palm trees. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The sap is collected by cutting between the kernels of the tree. Some sort of container, such as a gourd, is left to collect the draining sap for a day or two. The sap begins fermenting immediately after collection due to natural microorganisms in the air (this is often spurred by residual yeast left in the collecting container). Within two hours, fermentation yields an aromatic wine of up to 4% alcohol content, mildly intoxicating and sweet. The wine may be allowed to ferment longer, up to a day, to yield a stronger, more sour and acidic taste, which some people prefer. Longer fermentation produces vinegar instead of stronger wine. The wine is drunk fairly soon after creation, since it has a short shelf life. It is especially common in India and coastal areas of Africa.
The sap used to create palm wine is most often taken from wild date palms such as the Phoenix sylvestrix, the palmyra, and the Caryota urens; palm oil palm such as Elaeis guineense; Raphia palms; Kithul palms; or Nipa palms. Coconut palms and taller palms, such as the Borassus, may also be tapped, but seldom are (the wine of coconut palms is generally known as toddy).
Palm wine may be distilled into arrack (common in the Middle East and East Asia), or evaporated to leave an unrefined sugar called jaggery.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Palm wine."
Crosswords: PALM WINE |
| English words defined with "PALM WINE": Arenga pinnata ♦ Borassus flabellifer ♦ gomuti, gomuti palm ♦ longar palm, lontar ♦ Palm toddy, palmyra, palmyra palm ♦ sugar palm ♦ toddy palm ♦ wine palm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "PALM WINE": RAPHIA TAEDIGERA ♦ SCHEELIA BUTYRACEA, SCHEELIA ZONENSIS. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Women | Ghana | The tribunal ruled that the woman had to compensate the teacher with a portion of rum, a pot of palm wine, and $6 (2,000 cedis). (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
palm wine | 12 |
chilean palm wine | 4 |
palm wine software | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "PALM WINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | palmevin. (various references) | |
Dutch | palmwijn. (various references) | |
French | vin de palme. (various references) | |
German | Palmwein. (various references) | |
Greek | κρασί φοίνικα. (various references) | |
Italian | vino di palma. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | almpay ineway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vinho de palma. (various references) | |
Spanish | vino de palma. (various references) | |
Swedish | palmvin (toddy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-p-w" | |
-1 letter: impanel, maniple, pinwale. | |
-2 letters: alpine, impale, impawn, lawine, lawmen, maline, menial, penial, pineal, wimple. | |
-3 letters: alien, aline, amine, ample, anile, anime, elain, email, impel, lapin, leman, liane, liman, limen, limpa, maile, maple, milpa, minae, panel, penal, pilaw, pilea, plain, plane, plena. | |
-4 letters: alme, amen, amie, amin, anew, anil, elan, ilea, lain, lame, lamp, lane, lawn, lean, leap, lien, lima, lime, limn, limp, line, lipa, lipe, lwei, mail, main, male, mane, mawn, meal, mean, mewl, mien, mile, mina, mine, nail, name, nape, neap, nema, nipa, pail, pain, pale, palm, pane, pawl, pawn, peal, pean, pein, pial, pian, pile, pima, pina, pine, plan, plea, plew, plie, wail, wain, wale, wame, wane, weal, wean, wile, wimp, wine, wipe. | |
-5 letters: ail, aim, ain, ale, alp, ami, amp, ane, ani, ape, awe, awl, awn, elm, imp, lam, lap, law, lea, lei, lie, lin, lip, mae, man, map, maw, mel, men, mew, mil, nae, nam, nap, naw, new, nil, nim, nip, pal, pam, pan, paw, pea, pen, pew, pia, pie, pin, wae, wan, wap, wen, win. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-m-n-p-w" | |
+3 letters: policewoman. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 41 4C 4D 57 49 4E 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01000001 01001100 01001101 00100000 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P A L M   W I N E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0041 004C 004D 0057 0049 004E 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50354647257434839 |
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