Category:Sago

Sa"go, n. Etym: [malay. sagu.]

Defn: 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, atc.). 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.