sago palm

1. Any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago (synset 112603413)
   is a type of: palm, palm tree - any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
   subtypes:

   • 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
2. Dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago (synset 111621628)
   is a type of: cycad - any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves
   subtypes: cycas circinalis, false sago, fern palm - southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage
   substance holonym: jaggary, jaggery, jagghery - unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap
   same as: cycas revoluta

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