gomuti

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(gə mo̅o̅tē)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
go•mu•ti  (gə mo̅o̅tē),USA pronunciation n., pl. -tis. 
  1. Plant BiologyAlso called gomuti palm′, sugar palm. a sago palm, Arenga pinnata, of the East Indies, yielding palm sugar.
  2. Textilesa black, horsehairlike fiber obtained from this palm, used for making cords, ropes, cables, etc.
  • dialect, dialectal Malay (Moluccas) gomuti the stem fibers of the palm; compare Malay gəmuti (spelling, spelled gemuti)
  • probably 1805–15

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