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Sago

POS

Noun

HYPHEN

sa=go

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Sago has 1 sense

sago(n = noun.substance) - powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener;

is a kind of

amylum

starch

has particulars: pearl sago

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Sago, n. [Malay. s.].

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.). [1913 Webster]

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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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Sago, n. (pl. -os)
1 a kind of starch, made from the powdered pith of the sago palm and used in puddings etc.
2 (in full sago palm) any of several tropical palms and cycads, esp. Cycas circinalis and Metroxylon sagu, from which sago is made.

Etymology

Malay sagu (orig. through Port.)

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