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Gomuti

Gomuti \Go*mu"ti\, n. [Malayan gumuti.] A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two kinds of palms, Metroxylon Sagu, and Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands. It is used for making cordage. Called also ejoo.

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gomuti

n. A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two palms, ''Metroxylon sagu'', and ''Arenga saccharifera'', of the Indian islands, and used for making cordage.

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gomuti

n. Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago [syn: sugar palm, gomuti palm, Arenga pinnata]

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When the immense teak tub was full of water, perfumed with miada grass and sweetened with gomuti sugar, we both stripped off our silks and got into it together.