Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A powdery starch obtained from the pith of certain palm trees and cycads, used as a staple food chiefly in Asia and as a food thickener.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An amylaceous food derived from the soft spongy interior, the so-called “pith,” of the trunks of various palms. (See
sago-palm .)
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.). - noun a kind of sago prepared from the corms of the cuckoopint (
Arum maculatum ). - noun (Bot.) A species of Cycas (
Cycas revoluta ). - noun (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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A powdered
starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener. - noun Any of the
palms from which sago is extracted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In addition, the sago is tasteless almost and needs careful seasoning.
Archive 2005-07-01 Nupur 2005
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Unlike rice or barley, sago is not the fruit of a tiny stem, – it is the pith of the trunk of a great tree.
Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887
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One trunk of a tree in its fifteenth year sometimes yields six hundred pounds weight of sago, or meal (for the word sago signifies meal in the dialect of Amboyna).
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One trunk of a tree in its fifteenth year sometimes yields six hundred pounds weight of sago, or meal (for the word sago signifies meal in the dialect of Amboyna).
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The villagers of the mainland of Ceram bring their sago, which is thus distributed to the islands farther east, while rice from Bali and Macassar can also be purchased at a moderate price.
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In Thailand tapioca is known as sago, which can lead to confusion with true sago starch obtained from the sago palm, Metroxylon sagu.
Chapter 11 1987
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Our conductor called the sago tree _sibla_, but the Malays give it the name of _rumbiga_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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The Malays call the sago-tree the _rumbiya_ and its pith _sagu_ from which word we get our name _sago_.
Chatterbox, 1905. Various
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In the Moluccos the staple crop is not rice, but sago, which is prepared from the sap of the sago-palm.
Dutch Life in Town and Country P. M. Hough
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In the Borneo section there are exhibits of oils, also sago, which is a white powder-the dried sap of a tree.
bilby commented on the word sago
I go, you go, we all go for a food thickener and textile stiffener.
April 21, 2008
sionnach commented on the word sago
Let's here it for sago a go-go!
April 21, 2008
sionnach commented on the word sago
Maybe a little carrageenan on the side? Yum!
April 21, 2008
frindley commented on the word sago
Oh, I love sago pudding. It was one of my favourites as a child, second only to hasty pudding.
April 21, 2008