gomuti palm
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any member of the species Arenga pinnata of palm trees, native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Obsolete
Example Sentences
- "Some curious specimens of sugar were exhibited at the Great Exhibition, London, such as sugar from the Gomuti Palm (Arenga saccharifera) from Java."
- "Then we have the Saguer or Gomuti''' palms, almost rivalling the cocoanut in the multiplicity of their uses[.]"
- "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."