sago palm

/ˌseɪgoʊ pɑ(l)m/

Other forms: sago palms

Definitions of sago palm

1. noun

   any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago
   types:

   Arenga pinnata, gomuti, gomuti palm, sugar palm

   Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago

   Caryota urens, jaggery palm, kittul, kitul, kitul tree, toddy palm, wine palm

   fishtail palm of India to Malay Peninsula; sap yields a brown sugar (jaggery) and trunk pith yields sago

   Metroxylon sagu, true sago palm

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

   type of:

   palm, palm tree

   any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves
2. noun

   dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago
   synonyms: Cycas revoluta

   types:

   Cycas circinalis, false sago, fern palm

   southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage

   type of:

   cycad

   any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves