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1. any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago

↑sugar palm, ↑gomuti, ↑gomuti palm, ↑Arenga pinnata, ↑wine palm, ↑jaggery palm, ↑kitul, ↑kittul, ↑kitul tree, ↑toddy palm, ↑Caryota urens, ↑true sago palm, ↑Metroxylon sagu

2. dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago

1. : a plant that yields sago: as

a. : any of various lofty pinnate-leaved Indian and Malaysian palms of the genus Metroxylon (as M. laeve or M. rumphii)

b. : a Malaccan palm (Phoenix farinifera)

c. : gebang palm

d. : any of several Indian palms:

(1) : gomuti

(2) : jaggery palm

(3) : palmyra

e. : cabbage palm 1b

2.

a. : a cycad (Cycas revoluta) with recurved leaves that have revolute edges

b. : coontie

1. any of several tropical Old World palms, as of the genera Metroxylon and Caryota, that yield sago.

2. a cycad, Cycas revoluta, of Japan, having a crown of glossy, fernlike leaves, grown as an ornamental.

[1760-70]

sago palm noun

Any of various palms (including Metroxylon, Arenga, Caryota, Oreodoxa) and certain cycads, yielding sago

Main Entry: ↑sago

sago palm,

an East Indian palm tree from whose pith a starchy food is made. There are several kinds.