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单词 sago
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Definition of sago in English:

sago

nounPlural sagos ˈseɪɡəʊˈseɪɡoʊ
  • 1mass noun Edible starch which is obtained from a palm and is a staple food in parts of the tropics. The pith inside the trunk is scraped out, washed, and dried to produce a flour or processed to produce the granular sago used in the West.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Using a small spoon, sprinkle the surface with sago flour.
    • Rice could be bought at 2d a pound and sago and sugar at 3d a pound.
    • It is a large family, belonging to the tropics and subtropics, and many of its members furnish important foodstuffs: the coconut, date, sago, palm sugar, etc.
    • Gardens, sago swamps in which women process the sago from the palm and the bush in which men hunt are often located at a considerable distance from the village and access to them entails much travel and effort.
    • Corn, cassava, taro, sago, soybeans, peanuts, and coconuts are also widely grown.
    • They danced inside and underneath the enormous longhouses, concluding the celebrations with the consumption of large amounts of prepared foods, including sago and yams.
    • Women are primarily responsible for the production and preparation of sago, from cutting down the palm, to cooking and preparing the sago flour for eating.
    • Pulp harvested from sago produces a high-fiber, low-fat starch similar in texture, nutritional benefit, and use to whole-wheat flour.
    • To every 500 ml add two tablespoons of sago (sugar to taste).
    • Women lamented the time devoted to journeys further and further into the sago swamp to process sago as whole tracts of palms were unusable.
    • Flour allows us to mix many kinds of food sources together, such as cassava, sago, taro, yam, etc.
    • Although these essays are concerned with others crops too, only Ellen's contribution is really focused on another staple food, sago.
    • Wash the sago and cook in the extraction of milk.
    • Other produce includes coal, coconuts, sugar cane, pineapples, tobacco, vegetables, sago, tapioca, coffee, tea, maize, and groundnuts.
    • Canoes have played a crucial role for the Kamoro to retain their semi-nomadic lifestyle, particularly in collecting sago and catching fish - their two basic staples of their diet.
    • Foods like coconuts, sago and other staples like cassava, sweet potatoes and taro are collected and donated.
    • And they are eating these sorts of wild crops, or non-traditional food crops such as sago.
    • Here the staple foods are fish and sago; no pigs are kept, though wild ones - and cassowaries - may be hunted.
    • Some alternatives which produce results similar to gelatin are agar-agar, carrageenan, tapioca, sago, guar gum, pectin, and rennet.
    1. 1.1 A sweet dish made from sago and milk.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Milk puddings were served most days in the week - rice, tapioca, sago and semolina puddings, junket made with Rennet, and yellow coloured custard made with Edmonds custard powder.
      • It is like beating my head against sago pudding.
      • Grab a sweet bun from the bakery and get a sago from around the corner.
      • When sago is exported to western countries it is mixed to a paste with water and rubbed through a coarse sieve to make small pellets, thus giving it the familiar ‘frogspawn’ texture which is visible in a sago pudding.
      • After our mains we were tempted by dessert and were well pleased by the pancakes, which were crispy and almost pastry-like in texture, and the sago gula melaka ordered by my daughter.
      • Three things you just can't do: Yodel, get excited about rugby and swallow sago pudding.
      • It was her first taste of sago and she was full of compliments for this dish, which was enhanced with palm sugar and coconut milk.
      • When householders are given the chips, they get a lipstick-sized phial containing what looks like black sago pudding - vast numbers of particles held in a white bonding solution.
      • Casey bit into the mango and sago pudding and grinned.
  • 2The palm from which most sago is obtained, growing in freshwater swamps in SE Asia.

    Metroxylon sagu, family Palmae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The sago palm, Metroxylon sagu, is an increasingly socio-economically important crop in South-East Asia.
    • More prosaically, the Kombai tribe in remote Papua New Guinea swamps hoist their dwellings as much as 30m up towering sago palms to avoid enemies and repel mosquitoes.
    • The Asmat subsist by fishing and by harvesting wild sago trees, whose pith is carbohydrate-rich.
    • The sago palm grows 7-8 m high and is felled when it flowers.
    • The ingestion of azalea, oleander, castor bean, sago palm, Easter lily (in cats, only) or yew plant material by an animal can be fatal.
    • One sago palm may yield up to 400 kg of starch.
    • Surrounded by small Mexican pebbles, a young sago palm rises from a square, 30-inch-deep stain-less steel planter column, one of two flanking the rear stairway.
    • Today they are being initiated in the village of Na Khao Sia, where they are learning from local ‘women about the value and traditional uses of sago palm trees.’
    • From a felled sago palm, they break up the core of the trunk and separate the pure starch from the fibers.
    • Cycadales, ‘true cycads,’ are still with us and are represented by the common sago palm and the cardboard palm, often seen as decorative indoor plants or in outdoor gardens in the southern United States.
    • As for the carvings, I bought some rather lovely chopsticks made from wild betel nut palm and a dolphin carved from the nut of the sago palm.
    • For a long time it was generally accepted that reliance on sago palms was inversely correlated to the development of conventional agriculture.
    • The collection, cultivation and production of foodstuffs is the primary focus of village life and the staple food is sago, a starch product that is processed from the sago palm by women.
    • A 23-year-old woman from Indonesia clung to a floating sago palm tree in the ocean before being rescued by a Malaysian ship.
    • In 1995, villagers complained about the deteriorating state of the sago palms, which, they claimed, were increasingly useless as they never matured.
    • Throughout the homeland of the Penan, sago and rattan, palms, lianas, and fruit trees lie crushed on the forest floor.
    • The Iatmul diet consists primarily of fish and the edible palm tree called sago.
    • The sago palm is an important foodstuff in parts of the lowland areas of Melanesia.
    • Although sago palms are found on some of the Fijian Islands, this plant was never a staple as it was in other nearby islands of the Pacific.
    • In this story, the first sago came from inside a man's body who defecated and the sago fell to the ground and became a sago palm.
    • The cycads are well known as garden plants and the group includes the sago palm.
    • Likewise, the center says certain plants are fatal if eaten, including azalea, oleander, sago palm and yew.
    • It is not only the sago palms and swamps that are affected: increasingly, garden foods are ‘spoiled’ through immersion in water that previously irrigated them.
    1. 2.1 Any of a number of palms or cycads which yield a starch similar to sago.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Prime candidates are the DNA poison cycasin from the false sago palm, or two excitotoxins that also come from this palm.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Malay sagu (originally via Portuguese).

Rhymes

Diego, galago, Jago, lumbago, Tierra del Fuego, Tobago, Winnebago
 
 

Definition of sago in US English:

sago

nounˈsāɡōˈseɪɡoʊ
  • 1Edible starch which is obtained from a palm and is a staple food in parts of the tropics. The pith inside the trunk is scraped out, washed, and dried to produce a flour or processed to produce the granular sago used in the West.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Gardens, sago swamps in which women process the sago from the palm and the bush in which men hunt are often located at a considerable distance from the village and access to them entails much travel and effort.
    • Here the staple foods are fish and sago; no pigs are kept, though wild ones - and cassowaries - may be hunted.
    • Although these essays are concerned with others crops too, only Ellen's contribution is really focused on another staple food, sago.
    • Wash the sago and cook in the extraction of milk.
    • Women are primarily responsible for the production and preparation of sago, from cutting down the palm, to cooking and preparing the sago flour for eating.
    • Foods like coconuts, sago and other staples like cassava, sweet potatoes and taro are collected and donated.
    • Corn, cassava, taro, sago, soybeans, peanuts, and coconuts are also widely grown.
    • Women lamented the time devoted to journeys further and further into the sago swamp to process sago as whole tracts of palms were unusable.
    • It is a large family, belonging to the tropics and subtropics, and many of its members furnish important foodstuffs: the coconut, date, sago, palm sugar, etc.
    • Rice could be bought at 2d a pound and sago and sugar at 3d a pound.
    • Pulp harvested from sago produces a high-fiber, low-fat starch similar in texture, nutritional benefit, and use to whole-wheat flour.
    • Other produce includes coal, coconuts, sugar cane, pineapples, tobacco, vegetables, sago, tapioca, coffee, tea, maize, and groundnuts.
    • Canoes have played a crucial role for the Kamoro to retain their semi-nomadic lifestyle, particularly in collecting sago and catching fish - their two basic staples of their diet.
    • Some alternatives which produce results similar to gelatin are agar-agar, carrageenan, tapioca, sago, guar gum, pectin, and rennet.
    • They danced inside and underneath the enormous longhouses, concluding the celebrations with the consumption of large amounts of prepared foods, including sago and yams.
    • And they are eating these sorts of wild crops, or non-traditional food crops such as sago.
    • Flour allows us to mix many kinds of food sources together, such as cassava, sago, taro, yam, etc.
    • Using a small spoon, sprinkle the surface with sago flour.
    • To every 500 ml add two tablespoons of sago (sugar to taste).
    1. 1.1 A sweet dish made from sago and milk.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Milk puddings were served most days in the week - rice, tapioca, sago and semolina puddings, junket made with Rennet, and yellow coloured custard made with Edmonds custard powder.
      • When householders are given the chips, they get a lipstick-sized phial containing what looks like black sago pudding - vast numbers of particles held in a white bonding solution.
      • Casey bit into the mango and sago pudding and grinned.
      • It was her first taste of sago and she was full of compliments for this dish, which was enhanced with palm sugar and coconut milk.
      • Grab a sweet bun from the bakery and get a sago from around the corner.
      • Three things you just can't do: Yodel, get excited about rugby and swallow sago pudding.
      • It is like beating my head against sago pudding.
      • When sago is exported to western countries it is mixed to a paste with water and rubbed through a coarse sieve to make small pellets, thus giving it the familiar ‘frogspawn’ texture which is visible in a sago pudding.
      • After our mains we were tempted by dessert and were well pleased by the pancakes, which were crispy and almost pastry-like in texture, and the sago gula melaka ordered by my daughter.
  • 2The palm from which most sago is obtained, growing in freshwater swamps in Southeast Asia.

    Metroxylon sagu, family Palmae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The ingestion of azalea, oleander, castor bean, sago palm, Easter lily (in cats, only) or yew plant material by an animal can be fatal.
    • A 23-year-old woman from Indonesia clung to a floating sago palm tree in the ocean before being rescued by a Malaysian ship.
    • More prosaically, the Kombai tribe in remote Papua New Guinea swamps hoist their dwellings as much as 30m up towering sago palms to avoid enemies and repel mosquitoes.
    • The sago palm grows 7-8 m high and is felled when it flowers.
    • For a long time it was generally accepted that reliance on sago palms was inversely correlated to the development of conventional agriculture.
    • The sago palm is an important foodstuff in parts of the lowland areas of Melanesia.
    • Surrounded by small Mexican pebbles, a young sago palm rises from a square, 30-inch-deep stain-less steel planter column, one of two flanking the rear stairway.
    • Throughout the homeland of the Penan, sago and rattan, palms, lianas, and fruit trees lie crushed on the forest floor.
    • Although sago palms are found on some of the Fijian Islands, this plant was never a staple as it was in other nearby islands of the Pacific.
    • In 1995, villagers complained about the deteriorating state of the sago palms, which, they claimed, were increasingly useless as they never matured.
    • The cycads are well known as garden plants and the group includes the sago palm.
    • The Iatmul diet consists primarily of fish and the edible palm tree called sago.
    • The Asmat subsist by fishing and by harvesting wild sago trees, whose pith is carbohydrate-rich.
    • Today they are being initiated in the village of Na Khao Sia, where they are learning from local ‘women about the value and traditional uses of sago palm trees.’
    • Likewise, the center says certain plants are fatal if eaten, including azalea, oleander, sago palm and yew.
    • Cycadales, ‘true cycads,’ are still with us and are represented by the common sago palm and the cardboard palm, often seen as decorative indoor plants or in outdoor gardens in the southern United States.
    • It is not only the sago palms and swamps that are affected: increasingly, garden foods are ‘spoiled’ through immersion in water that previously irrigated them.
    • In this story, the first sago came from inside a man's body who defecated and the sago fell to the ground and became a sago palm.
    • From a felled sago palm, they break up the core of the trunk and separate the pure starch from the fibers.
    • One sago palm may yield up to 400 kg of starch.
    • As for the carvings, I bought some rather lovely chopsticks made from wild betel nut palm and a dolphin carved from the nut of the sago palm.
    • The sago palm, Metroxylon sagu, is an increasingly socio-economically important crop in South-East Asia.
    • The collection, cultivation and production of foodstuffs is the primary focus of village life and the staple food is sago, a starch product that is processed from the sago palm by women.
    1. 2.1 Any of a number of other palms or cycads that yield a similar starch.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Prime candidates are the DNA poison cycasin from the false sago palm, or two excitotoxins that also come from this palm.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Malay sagu (originally via Portuguese).

 
 
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