Found 2 hits - Term: sago, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sago \sa"go\ s=a"g-o, n. malay. s=agu.
a dry granulated starch imported from the east indies, much
used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the
sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. it is
prepared from the stems of several east indian and malayan
palm trees, but chiefly from the metroxylon sagu; also from
several cycadaceous plants cycas revoluta, zamia
integrifolia, etc..
1913 webster
portland sago, a kind of sago prepared from the corms of
the cuckoopint arum maculatum.
sago palm. bot.
a a palm tree which yields sago.
b a species of cycas cycas revoluta.
sago spleen med., a morbid condition of the spleen,
produced by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a
cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies
looking like grains of sago.
1913 webster
see also:
metroxylon sagu cycas revoluta zamia integrifolia portland sago arum maculatum sago palm
sago spleen
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sago
n : powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in asia as a
food thickener and textile stiffener
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