Sago Palm

Word SAGO PALM
Character 9
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Sago Palm"

What do we mean by sago palm?

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word sago-palm. Define sago-palm, sago-palm synonyms, sago-palm pronunciation, sago-palm translation, English dictionary definition of sago-palm.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sago Palm

  • Synonyms for sago palm
  • Sago Palm synonyms not found!!!
  • Antonyms for sago palm
  • Sago Palm antonyms not found!

The word "sago-palm" in example sentences

It was very small, not raised on posts, but with the earth for a floor, and was built almost entirely of the leaf-stems of the sago-palm, called here “gaba-gaba.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was composed of remarkably unbleached sago, which they make from the sago-palm, boiled down with sugar to nearly a jelly. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

The houses were mostly well built, of wooden framework filled in with gaba-gaba (leaf-stems of the sago-palm), but as they had no whitewash, and the floors were of bare black earth like the roads, and generally on the same level, they were extremely damp and gloomy. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The walls are of stone up to three feet high; on this are strong squared posts supporting the roof, everywhere except in the verandah filled in with the leaf-stems of the sago-palm, fitted neatly in wooden owing. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"Yes," was the reply; "there are a great many members of this most useful family, but the one that will interest you most, after the date-and cocoanut-palm, is, I think, the sago-palm." ❋ Ella Rodman Church (N/A)

On pulling near the beach the whole party came down and waded into the water towards us; and, in exchange for a few chisels and files, gave us two baskets, one containing fresh water and the other was full of the fruit of the sago-palm, which grows here in great abundance. ❋ Phillip Parker King (N/A)

Here, the sago-palm, platanus, and tamarind, as well as the flowers and vegetables of the north of Europe, flourish so well as to promise to add permanently to the riches of this rich island. ❋ Maria Graham (N/A)

The trees were now not the lesser growths of bamboo, lime and sago-palm that covered the foot-hills. ❋ Gordon Casserly (N/A)

Only a relative poverty belongs to a clime where the shaking of a sago-palm provides a large family with rations for three months, but the physical energies of Boeroe have ebbed to a point where "desire fails," and the unsatisfactory conditions of life meet for the most part with apathetic acceptance. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)

In the Moluccos the staple crop is not rice, but sago, which is prepared from the sap of the sago-palm. ❋ P. M. Hough (N/A)

For this purpose a sago-palm is cut down, sago-porridge made, and a wild boar killed. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

Thereupon the nearest relations bring out the corpse and deposit it in a crouching position, with the knees drawn up to the chin, on some mats and leaves of the sago-palm, which had previously been spread out in the middle of the open space. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

The staple food of the people is sago, which they extract from the sago-palm; but they also make use of bread-fruit, together with millet, rice, and maize, whenever they can obtain these cereals. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

The ears were decorated with shreds of the sago-palm or with grey seeds. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

Among their fruit-trees are the sago-palm, the coco-nut palm, and the bread-fruit tree. ❋ James George Frazer (1897)

The great majority of these groups are within the limits of the sago-palm, bread-fruit, cocoanut, and banana, and these yield not only the food-stuffs of the native people, but the export products as well. ❋ Unknown (1895)

Some of the bodies placed on the rocks are encased in a disused prahu, sometimes only within strips of the sago-palm. ❋ Unknown (1887)

Even the poorest house in the native quarter has a dammar light flaring on a pedestal of the stem of the sago-palm stripped of its sheath. ❋ Unknown (1887)

A tiny fellow can, from the soft sago-palm stem, himself shape and set with sail, and fit with rudder and oars, an excellent miniature of the prahu his father sails. ❋ Unknown (1887)

The sago-palm and a great number of valuable wild fruits are found, such as the famous durian, mangosteen, lansat, rambutan, and others. ❋ Carl Lumholtz (1886)

Cross Reference for Sago Palm

  • Sago Palm cross reference not found!

What does sago palm mean?

Best Free Book Reviews
Best IOS App Reviews