metro to me (metro tom)

[ Malay archipelago, New Guinea, and the Fiji Islands. lævis Rumphii, natives of Siam, the Malayan islands, etc., are the proper sago-palms. The former grows from 25 to 50 feet high, and has a rather thick trunk, covered with leaf-scars, which bears a graceful crown of large pinnate leaves, from the center of which arise the pyrami dal flower-spikes. The latter is a much smaller tree, further distinguished by the sharp spines borne on its leaves and flower-sheaths. These trees flower when about fifteen years old, and require nearly three years to ripen their fruit, after which they die. (See sago.) M. Rumphii is a littoral tree which forms dense growths; M. lævis grows in swamps. M. amicarum, a species in the Friendly Islands, yields seeds which serve as a vegetable ivory. mettadelt, n. [ Bailey, 1731. mettelt. An obsolete preterit of meet1. mette2+. Preterit of mete2.