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Arenga

noun

a genus of tropical Asian and Malaysian palm trees

• Syn: ↑genus Arenga

• Hypernyms: ↑plant genus

• Member Holonyms:

↑Palmae, ↑family Palmae, ↑Palmaceae, ↑family Palmaceae, ↑Arecaceae, ↑family Arecaceae, ↑palm family

• Member Meronyms: ↑sugar palm, ↑gomuti, ↑gomuti palm, ↑Arenga pinnata

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\\əˈrengə, -eŋgə\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Javanese arén

: a genus of tropical Asiatic and Malaysian palms having pendent branching spadices and large berrylike fruits — see gomuti

Useful english dictionary. 2012.