JAGGERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jaggery mean? 

• JAGGERY (noun)
  The noun JAGGERY has 1 sense:

1. unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap

  Familiarity information: JAGGERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JAGGERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

jaggary; jaggery; jagghery

Hypernyms ("jaggery" is a kind of...):

carbohydrate; saccharide; sugar (an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain)

Holonyms ("jaggery" is a substance of...):

Cycas revoluta; sago palm (dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago)

Arenga pinnata; gomuti; gomuti palm; sugar palm (Malaysian feather palm with base densely clothed with fibers; yields a sweet sap used in wine and trunk pith yields sago)