sago palm

DEFINITIONS OF: sago palm

Types:: Arenga pinnata, gomuti, gomuti palm, sugar palm
Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago; Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm
fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago; Metroxylon sagu, true sago palm
Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji

Type of:: palm, palm tree
any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves

Types:: Cycas circinalis, false sago, fern palm
southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage

Type of:: cycad
any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves

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