ARENGA PINNATA

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Meaning:

Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago

Synonyms:

Arenga pinnata; gomuti; gomuti palm; sugar palm

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Arenga pinnata" is a kind of...):

sago palm (any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago)

Meronyms (substance of "Arenga pinnata"):

jaggary; jaggery; jagghery (unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap)

Holonyms ("Arenga pinnata" is a member of...):

Arenga; genus Arenga (a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees)