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gomuti|gəʊˈmuːtɪ|
Also gomuta.
[ad. Mal. gĕmuti sugar-palm fibre.]
A palm tree, Arenga pinnata, native to Malaya and the East Indies, and cultivated elsewhere, particularly in India; also, the fibre obtained from this tree.
1811W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra (ed. 3) 88 This palm, named in Sumatra anau, and by the eastern Malays gomuto, is the borassus gomutus of Loureiro. Ibid., The anau palm produces also (besides a little sago) the remarkable substance called iju or gomuto, exactly resembling coarse black horse-hair. 1836Loudon Encycl. Plants (ed. 2) Suppl. 1290 Gomutus,..a palm, growing to the height of 40 ft. 1886Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson 295/1 Gomuti, a substance resembling horsehair, and forming excellent cordage.., sometimes improperly called coir, which is produced by a palm growing in the Archipelago, Arenga saccharifera. 1889G. S. Boulger Uses of Plants vi. 168 Arenga saccharifera, Labill., Gomuti Palm. Ramenta, or Vegetable bristles, suggested as a covering for telegraph cables. 1908G. Watt Commercial Prod. India 91 At the base of the petiole is found a beautiful black horsehair-like fibre known as the Ejú or Gomuta Fibre. 1926E. Blatter Palms Brit. India iv. 357 Like the true Sago Palm..the Gomuti Palm affords a medullary substance, from which a meal is prepared. 1953N. L. Bor Man. Indian Forest Bot. 351 At the base of the petioles is found a beautiful black fibre, exactly like horse-hair, known as Gomuta fibre, which is very strong and can be used under water. |