英:[kɪ'tu:l]
美:[kɪ'tul]
英:[kɪ'tu:l]
美:[kɪ'tul]
noun
a brownish black fiber resembling horsehair yielded by the leafstalks of the Asiatic jaggery palm and used chiefly in making brushes for polishing linens and cottons and for brushing velvets called alsoblack fiber
jaggery palm
a fiber derived from the gomuti palm resembling kittul
gomuti palm
Sinhalese kitul, hitul, from Sanskrit hintāla
1 It was a wild uninhabited district at that time on the banks of the Settite river, with the most impervious jungle of hooked thorns, called by the Arabs "kittul."