| gomuti (def. 1). |
| 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. |

| sugar palm | |
noun | |
| Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago |