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JAGGHERY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does jagghery mean?
• JAGGHERY (noun)
The noun JAGGHERY has 1 sense:
1. unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap
Familiarity information: JAGGHERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("jagghery" 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 ("jagghery" 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)
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