gomuti palm

plural gomuti palms

1. obsoleteAny member of the species Arenga pinnata of palm trees, native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

   Then we have the Saguer or Gomuti palms, almost rivalling the cocoanut in the multiplicity of their uses[.]

   1885 January 31, The Queenslander, Brisbane, page 192, column 2

   2 more examples

   Some curious specimens of sugar were exhibited at the Great Exhibition, London, such as sugar from the Gomuti Palm (Arenga saccharifera) from Java.

   1870 June 17, The Brisbane Courier, page 4, column 2

   The sumpitan is a hollow bamboo blow pipe fashioned from the gomuti palm, out of which the aboriginals discharge darts made of the fibres of the same trees.

   1901 September 14, The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette, NSW, page 6, column 3

   Synonyms: ejoo, gomuti