tall fan palm of Africa and India and Malaysia yielding a hard wood and sweet sap that is a source of palm wine and sugar; leaves used for thatching and weaving
"During the monsoon season, the villagers harvested the sweet sap from our local palmyra trees to make fresh palm wine and gathered their broad leaves to thatch the new roof."
A palm, (Borassus flabellifer), with straight black upright trunk and palmate leaves, whose wood, fruit, and roots can be used for many purposes.
"The ancient village relied entirely on the palmyra tree for its thatch roofs, sturdy construction timber, and sweet sap."
An ancient city, an oasis in the Syrian Desert, in present-day central Syria, recorded historically from around 2000 BCE, subsequently subject to various empires and destroyed in 273 CE and again in 1400, when it was reduced to a village.
"Archaeologists recently uncovered pottery shards at Palmyra that suggest the ancient oasis was thriving centuries before its final destruction by invading armies."