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Webster 1913 Edition


Sago

Sa′go

(sā′gō̍)
,
Noun.
[Malay.
sāgu
.]
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.).
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.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sago

SA'GO

,
Noun.
a dry mealy substance or granulated paste, imported from Java and the Philippine and Molucca isles. It is the pith or marrow of a species of palm tree, and much used in medicine as a restorative diet.

Definition 2024


sågo

sågo

See also: sago, saago, and saĝo

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Verb

sågo

  1. Obsolete plural form of såg, past tense of se.