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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago;

2. dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago;
[syn: sago palm, Cycas revoluta]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sago \Sa"go\ (s[=a]"g[-o]), n. [Malay. s[=a]gu.] 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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sago palm n 1: any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago 2: dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago [syn: sago palm, Cycas revoluta]