jaggery

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Noun

HYPHEN

jag=ger=y

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun jaggery has 1 sense

jaggery(n = noun.substance) jaggary, jagghery - unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap;

is a kind of carbohydrate, saccharide, sugar

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CIDE DICTIONARY

jaggery, n. [Hind jāgrī. Cf. Sugar.].

Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically those of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis) and jaggery palm (Caryota urens). [1913 Webster]