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gomuti
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gomuti has 1 sense
- gomuti(n = noun.plant) arenga pinnata, gomuti palm, sugar palm - Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago; Array is a kind of sago palm
is a member of arenga, genus arenga
CIDE DICTIONARY
gomuti, n. [Malayan gumuti.].
A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu , and Arenga saccharifera , of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo . [1913 Webster]
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