单词 | sago palm |
释义 | sago palm (once / 139051 pages) n WORD FAMILY sago palm: sago palms USAGE EXAMPLESValuable starch is secured from the sago palm, which is cut just before flowering, and the leaves are a common thatching material. Gabel, Norman E., A Racial Study of the Fijians(2012) Groups of palm trees, sago palms, and other varieties of the same family bend down to the water's edge along the great streams. Badlam, Anna B., The World and Its People: Book VII...(2011) We slept under roofs thatched with sago palm, kunai grass, bamboo, banana and pandanus leaves. New York Times(Oct 22, 2010) 1n any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago Hypo|Hyper 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 palmfishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago Metroxylon sagu, true sago palmMalaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji palm, palm tree any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves 2n dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago Syn|Hypo|Hyper Cycas revoluta Cycas circinalis, false sago, fern palm southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage cycad any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves |
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