bagaço
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom baga (“berry”) + -aço. Compare Galician and Spanish bagazo.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -asu
- Hyphenation: ba‧ga‧ço
Noun
editbagaço m (plural bagaços)
- bagasse (residue from processing sugar cane after the juice is extracted)
- pomace (pulp that remains after a fruit has been pressed to extract the juice)
- marc (a type of brandy produced from grape residues)
- Synonym: bagaceira
- Hypernym: aguardente
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “bagaço” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.