Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sago-palm, Arenga saccharifera.
- noun 2. The black fiber obtained from the sago-palm, remarkable for its power of resisting decay in water.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms,
Metroxylon Sagu , andArenga saccharifera , of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called alsoejoo .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A black,
fibrous substance resemblinghorsehair , obtained from theleafstalks of twopalms , Metroxylon sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands, and used for makingcordage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
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Examples
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The inhabitants of the Moluccas were in the practice of using, in their wars, in the defence of posts, a liquor afforded by the maceration of the fruit of the gomuti, which the Dutch appropriately denominated hell water.
North Coast Culture tellurian 2008
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The inhabitants of the Moluccas were in the practice of using, in their wars, in the defence of posts, a liquor afforded by the maceration of the fruit of the gomuti, which the Dutch appropriately denominated hell water.
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* One of the most useful and abundant of all the palms, is the sagwire or gomuti borasms gomutus.
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* One of the most useful and abundant of all the palms, is the sagwire or gomuti borasms gomutus.
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The gomuti palm is fit to yield toddy at nine or ten years old, and continues to yield it for two years at the average rate of three quarts a day.
North Coast Culture tellurian 2008
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The gomuti palm is fit to yield toddy at nine or ten years old, and continues to yield it for two years at the average rate of three quarts a day.
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Exhibition of 1851, among others, -- gomuti palm sugar (_Arenga saccharifera_) from Java; date palm sugar, from the Deccan; nipa sugar, from the stems of _Nipa fruticans_, and sugar from the fleshy flowers of _Bassia latifolia_, -- an East Indian tree.
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"We have some molasses to eat with it, produced from the sap of the gomuti-palm."
In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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