NOUN
- Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago
How To Use gomuti In A Sentence
- * One of the most useful and abundant of all the palms, is the sagwire or gomuti borasms gomutus. North Coast Culture
- We have some molasses to eat with it, produced from the sap of the gomuti-palm. In the Eastern Seas
- Exhibition of 1851, among others, -- gomuti palm sugar (_Arenga saccharifera_) from Java; date palm sugar, from the Deccan; nipa sugar, from the stems of _Nipa fruticans_, and sugar from the fleshy flowers of _Bassia latifolia_, -- an East Indian tree. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- The gomuti palm is fit to yield toddy at nine or ten years old, and continues to yield it for two years at the average rate of three quarts a day. North Coast Culture
- The inhabitants of the Moluccas were in the practice of using, in their wars, in the defence of posts, a liquor afforded by the maceration of the fruit of the gomuti, which the Dutch appropriately denominated hell water. North Coast Culture
