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gaba-gaba

gaba-gaba noun: the leaf stems of the sago palm (Metroxylon sagu).

Noun

gaba-gaba (uncountable)

  1. The leaf stems of the sago palm (Metroxylon sagu).
    • The houses were mostly well built, of wooden framework filled in with gaba-gaba (leaf-stems of the sago-palm), but as they had no whitewash, and the floors were of bare black earth like the roads, and generally on the same level, they were extremely damp and gloomy.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 125

Questions about gaba-gaba

What does gaba-gaba mean?
Gaba-gaba means the leaf stems of the sago palm (Metroxylon sagu).
What part of speech is gaba-gaba?
Gaba-gaba is a noun.

Words near gaba-gaba in the dictionary

  1. Gaavilin'gili
  2. gab
  3. gab-
  4. GABA
  5. GABA-ergic
  6. gaba-gaba
  7. gabaculine
  8. Gabae
  9. gabaergic
  10. GABAergics
  11. gabagool

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