1. Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji; [syn: true sago palm, Metroxylon sagu]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
true sago palm
n 1: Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used
as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji
[syn: true sago palm, Metroxylon sagu]