jaggery
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- unrefined brown sugar made from palm sapSynonyms: jaggheryjaggaryType of carbohydrate, saccharideSubstance of sago palm, sugar palm
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Jag′ger·y (jăg′gẽr-y̆), noun
Origin: Hind jāgrī. Cf. Sugar.
Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically those of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis) and jaggery palm (Caryota urens). [Written also jagghery and jaggary.]
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54