metroxylon sagu

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   Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji

   Synonymstrue sago palm

   Broadersago palm

Questions about metroxylon sagu

What does metroxylon sagu mean?

metroxylon sagu means "Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji".

What is another word for metroxylon sagu?

Close synonyms include true sago palm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metroxylon sagu a common word?

metroxylon sagu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.