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sa·go 
[sey-goh] Pronunciation Key
[sey-goh] Pronunciation Key –noun
| a starchy foodstuff derived from the soft interior of the trunk of various palms and cycads, used in making puddings. |
[Origin: 1545–55; earlier sagu < Malay]
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| sa·go
(sā'gō) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. sa·gos A powdery starch obtained from the trunks of certain sago palms and used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener. [Malay sagu, mealy pith.] |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
sago
sago
"starch made of the piths of palms," 1555, via Port. and Du. from Malay sagu, the name of the palm tree from which it is obtained.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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| sago | |
noun | |
| powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener |
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Sago
Sa"go\ (s[=a]"g[-o]), n. [Malay. s[=a]gu.] A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.). Portland sago, a kind of sago prepared from the corms of the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum). Sago palm. (Bot.) (a) A palm tree which yields sago. (b) A species of Cycas (Cycas revoluta). Sago spleen (Med.), a morbid condition of the spleen, produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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