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Definition: Sago |
SagoNoun1. Powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sago" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Edible product prepared from sago starch. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sago is a starchy granular substance used in cooking. It is very similar to tapioca, and used for much the same purpose.Sago is the inside of the cycad Cycas revoluta stem. The pith is washed, then the part that comes out in the water is dried and cooked. It is eaten in the lowlands of Irian Jaya.
Sago can be made into steamed puddings such as sago plum pudding, or ground into a powder and used as a thickener for other dishes or as a dense glutinous flour.
The sago palm is an ornamental plant that is slow growing.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sago."
Crosswords: Sago |
| English words defined with "sago": Arenga pinnata, arum ♦ Caryota urens, Cycadaceous, Cycas revoluta ♦ gomuti, gomuti palm ♦ jaggery palm ♦ kittul, kitul, kitul tree ♦ Pearl sago, Portland sago ♦ sago palm, Sago spleen, Sagus, sugar palm ♦ toddy alm ♦ wine palm. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sago": Pepenance. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sago": Sagus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sago" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (arrow), German (sago), Manx (sago ), Romanian (sago), Serbo-Croatian (sago), Swedish (sago). |
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| "Sago Palm fronds" by Lisa McDonald Commentary: "Sago palm tree revelas new year's growth." |
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Economic History | Papua New Guinea | Early garden crops--many of which are indigenous--included sugarcane, Pacific bananas, yams, and taros, while sago and pandanus were two commonly exploited native forest crops. (references) |
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| "Sago" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sago" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "sago" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Sago | Last name | 130 | 68,357 |
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Expressions using "sago": false sago ♦ Pearl sago ♦ Portland sago ♦ sago fern ♦ sago palm ♦ sago spleen ♦ true sago palm. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sago": sago-thatch. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sago"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | miell palme. (various references) | |
Arabic | الساغو دقيق نشوي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сагова палма (sago palm), саго, палмено нишесте. (various references) | |
Chinese | 西米. (various references) | |
Czech | ságo. (various references) | |
Danish | sago. (various references) | |
Dutch | sago. (various references) | |
Farsi | پنیرخرما, شیرینی که بانشاسته ساگوتهیه شود, درخت نخل ساگو. (various references) | |
Finnish | saagopalmu (sago palm). (various references) | |
French | sagou. (various references) | |
German | Sago. (various references) | |
Greek | σάγοσ, σάγου, σάγος, άλευρο εκ φοινίκων. (various references) | |
Hungarian | szágó (sago-palm). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sagu. (various references) | |
Italian | sagù (bastard sago palm, jaggery palm, sago palm, toddy palm), tapioca di sago o di sagù. (various references) | |
Manx | sago. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agosay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sagu. (various references) | |
Romanian | sago. (various references) | |
Russian | саго (pearl sago). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sago. (various references) | |
Spanish | sagú. (various references) | |
Swedish | sago. (various references) | |
Thai | แป้งสาคู. (various references) | |
Turkish | sagu, hint irmiği. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сагова пальма. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bột cọ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sago": sagos. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sago": sapsago. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sago": isagoge, isagoges, isagogic, isagogics, sapsagos. (additional references) | |
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"Sago" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Asafo, asagi, asago, cago, eago, Esag, esage, esago, gaso, iago, jago, nago, Osogo, sabo, saboh, Sabol, sabon, saboo, Sabou, Sadok, Sadoo, saeo, sagb, sagi, s'agit, Sagiv, sagon, sagor, sagos, sagot, sagu, Saguy, Saho, Saiga, saige, saja, saji, sako, salgo, salo, samo, sano, sapo, sarg, Sarguja, saro, saso, sasol, Saugor, savob, saxo, sayg, sayo, sazo, seago, sega, Seglow, segoa, segot, segou, segu, Seigo, seogi, sexo, sg, sga, sgah, sgu, sifo, siga, sigi, siglo, Sigo, Sigon, silgo, siog, sojo, Sovgeo, Spagnol, spago, svga, t'go, Tsegu, usago, zaga, zago, zogo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sago" (pronounced 'Sa"go'): AErugo, Amigo, Arango, Argo, Bongo, Botargo, Bungo, Caligo, Camerlingo, Cargo, Cerago, Chimango, Colugo, Contango, Cundurango, Dago, Ferrugo, Fidalgo, flamingo, galago, Ginkgo, gringo, Hidalgo, imago, impetigo, intertrigo, jingo, lanugo, Largo, lentigo, lingo, lumbago, mango, Melligo, Non-ego, Pichiciago, plumbago, Pongo, Potargo, Prurigo, Rubigo, Sargo, Sego, Serpigo, Solidago, sorgo, Squintifego, Stingo, Subimago, Suffrago. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: goas. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-o-s" | |
-1 letter: ago, gas, goa, gos, sag. | |
-2 letters: ag, as, go, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-o-s" | |
+1 letter: agios, agons, dagos, gaols, goads, goals, goats, ogams, sagos, togas, yogas. | |
+2 letters: aggros, agones, agoras, algors, amigos, argols, argons, argosy, argots, azygos, biogas, bogans, cargos, congas, dagoes, dogmas, dongas, dosage, fagots, galops, galosh, ganofs, gascon, gators, gavots, gazoos, genoas, gloams, gloats, glossa, gobans, gonads, gorals, gossan, gowans, groans, groats, guacos, guanos, hogans, imagos, largos, logans, magots, mangos, oghams, omegas, orangs, organs, orgasm, outgas, pagods, pargos, rugosa, sarong, sawlog, seadog, slogan, socage, tangos, tongas, wagons. | |
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