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Definition of Metroxylon sagu
1. Noun. Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metroxylon Sagu
Literary usage of Metroxylon sagu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy by Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (1830)
"And he describes the sago palm, (metroxylon sagu,) as a native of that portion
of the Archipelago in which the easterly monsoon is the boisterous and rainy ..."
2. Pamphlets on Forestry in the Philippine Islands (1903)
"... metroxylon sagu (sago palm), the different species of ... Cocos nucifera,
Corypha elata, Arenga tremula, and metroxylon sagu, while an inferior product ..."
3. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"Kunth, Enum. Plant., iii, p. 214. There are 7 or 8 species, natives of tropical
Asia. 278. metroxylon sagu,t Rottb. in Nye Samling af K. Danske ..."
4. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1900)
"Several species of palm are known to produce fine sago, among which may be named
metroxylon sagu, ..."
5. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1904)
"of it, probably, comes from the trunk of metroxylon sagu, the true sago palm,
which inhabits many of the islands of the Malay Archipelago. ..."
6. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1905)
"THE Sago of Commerce is the product of the metroxylon sagu, a species of palm
which is indigenous to the forests of the marshes of Borneo and the ..."
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