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–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    Audio Help   (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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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 

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sago [ˈseigəu] noun
a starchy substance obtained from inside the trunk of certain palm trees; (also adjective)
Example: sago pudding
Arabic: ساغو: دَقيق النَّخِل
Chinese (Simplified): 西米.西米椰子; 西谷椰子味的
Chinese (Traditional): 西米.西米椰子; 西穀椰子味的
Czech: ságo(vý)
Danish: sago; sago-
Dutch: sago
Estonian: saago(tang)
Finnish: saago
French: sagou
German: der Sago
Greek: σάγο (αμυλούχα φυτική ουσία)
Hungarian: szágó
Icelandic: sagógrjón
Indonesian: sagu
Italian: sago, sagù
Japanese: サゴ
Korean: 사고(사고야자의 나무심에서 채취하는 전분질)
Latvian: sago
Lithuanian: sago
Norwegian: sagogryn; sago-
Polish: (z) sago
Portuguese (Portugal): sagu
Romanian: sago
Russian: саго
Slovak: ságo; ságový
Slovenian: sago
Spanish: sagú
Swedish: sago
Turkish: sagu, Hint irmiği
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Main Entry: sa·go
Pronunciation: 'sA-(")gO
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural sagos
: a dry granulated or powdered starch prepared from the pith of a sago palm and used in foods and as textile stiffening

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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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.
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Sago

Sa"gus\, n. [NL. See Sago.] (Bot.) A genus of palms from which sago is obtained.
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