(n)Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago, Syn.gomuti palm, gomuti, Arenga pinnata
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‖‖ n. [ Malayan. ] A palm tree (Saguerus saccharifer) which furnishes sago, wine, and fibers for ropes; the gomuti palm. [ 1913 Webster ]