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sugar palm

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go⋅mu⋅ti

[guh-moo-tee]
–noun, plural -tis.
1. Also called gomuti palm, sugar palm. a sago palm, Arenga pinnata, of the East Indies, yielding palm sugar.
2. a black, horsehairlike fiber obtained from this palm, used for making cords, ropes, cables, etc.

Origin:
1805–15; prob. < dial. Malay (Moluccas) gomuti the stem fibers of the palm; cf. Malay gəmuti (sp. gemuti)
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sugar palm

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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