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sa⋅go
[sey-goh] 
–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
1545–55; earlier sagu < Malay
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| sa·go (sā'gō) 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
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
"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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Main Entry: sa·go
Pronunciation: 'sA-(")gO
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural sagos
: a dry granulated or powdered starchprepared 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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