JAGGERY

jaggery, jagghery, jaggary

(noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

jaggery (countable and uncountable, plural jaggeries)

A traditional unrefined sugar used throughout South and South-East Asia.

A small-scale production plant that processes sugar cane.

Source: Wiktionary


Jag"ger*y, n. Etym: [Hind jagri. Cf. Sugar.]

Definition: Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis). [Written also jagghery.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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