sago : Idioms & Phrases

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false sago

  • noun southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage
    Cycas circinalis; fern palm.
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Pearl sago

  • noun sago ground into small round grains
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  • sago in the form of small pearly grains.
Webster 1913

Portland sago

  • a kind of sago prepared from the corms of the cuckoopint (Arum maculatum).
Webster 1913

sago fern

  • noun a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides
    silver tree fern; Cyathea medullaris; black tree fern.
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Sago palm

  • noun any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago
  • noun dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago
    Cycas revoluta.
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  • . (Bot.) (a) A palm tree which yields sago . (b) A species of Cycas (Cycas revoluta).
Webster 1913

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.
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true sago palm

  • noun Malaysian palm whose pithy trunk yields sago--a starch used as a food thickener and fabric stiffener; Malaya to Fiji
    Metroxylon sagu.
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