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sago

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sa=go

CIDE DICTIONARY

sagon. [Malay. s.].
     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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sago, n. (pl. -os)
1 a kind of starch, made from the powdered pith of the sago palm and used in puddings etc.
2 (in full sago palm) any of several tropical palms and cycads, esp. Cycas circinalis and Metroxylon sagu, from which sago is made.

Etymology
Malay sagu (orig. through Port.)

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