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GOMUTI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gomuti mean?
• GOMUTI (noun)
The noun GOMUTI has 1 sense:
1. Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
Familiarity information: GOMUTI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Arenga pinnata; gomuti; gomuti palm; sugar palm
Hypernyms ("gomuti" is a kind of...):
sago palm (any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago)
Meronyms (substance of "gomuti"):
jaggary; jaggery; jagghery (unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap)
Holonyms ("gomuti" is a member of...):
Arenga; genus Arenga (a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees)
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