gomuti

English

Etymology

From Malay.

Noun

gomuti (uncountable)

  1. A black, fibrous substance resembling horsehair, obtained from the leafstalks of two palms, Metroxylon sagu, and Arenga pinnata (syn. Arenga saccharifera, of the Indian islands, and used for making cordage.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gomuti in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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