SANGER

Sanger, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Higgins Sanger

(noun) United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)

Sanger, Frederick Sanger, Fred Sanger

(noun) English biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

sanger (plural sangers)

(Australia, informal, colloquial) A sandwich. [From 1960s.]

Synonyms

• (Australia) sambo

• (Australia) sammie, sammo, sango

• (UK) sarnie

Etymology 2

Noun

sanger (plural sangers)

Alternative form of sangar

Anagrams

• Agners, Angers, Ganser, angers, arengs, granes, ranges, rengas, resang, serang, snarge

Etymology

Proper noun

Sanger

A surname.

A city in Fresno County, California, United States.

Anagrams

• Agners, Angers, Ganser, angers, arengs, granes, ranges, rengas, resang, serang, snarge

Source: Wiktionary



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