sago
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sago
1545–55; earlier sagu < Malay
Example Sentences
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Menus change seasonally here, but the current menu, Fight Club, highlights Indonesian ingredients like passionfruit with coconut and sago, and rosella with longan.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
The Malaccans also planted orchards of sago palms, which provided an important foodstuff, a starchy ingredient of bread and noodles that was traded throughout the region.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Mango pomelo sago is the top fruit tea: It harmonizes pulpy tart pomelo with slick sweet mangos and creamy cold slush.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022
She made upma with sago, the squishy pearls made from palm starch, and poha, the almost translucent pieces of dry, beaten rice, hydrated in a little water.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2021
The sand of the beach was very white, cold and grainy, like sago, like the dust on the surface of the moon, and it was night, too, it was dead and cold and black.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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