true sago palm

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

   SynonymsMetroxylon sagu

   Broadersago palm

Questions about true sago palm

What does true sago palm mean?

true sago palm 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 true sago palm?

Close synonyms include Metroxylon sagu. 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 true sago palm a common word?

true sago palm 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.