sago : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sago	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sago
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sago n powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sago \Sa"go\ (s[amac]"g[osl]), n. [Malay. s[amac]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.). {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.