sago
(noun) powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in Asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sago (countable and uncountable, plural sagos or sagoes)
A powdered starch obtained from certain palms used as a food thickener.
A similar starch obtained from a palm-like cycad, Cycas revoluta
Any of the palms from which sago is extracted.
• AOGs, Gaos, Gosa, goas
Sago (plural Sagos)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Sago is the 29719th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 792 individuals. Sago is most common among Black/African American (43.43%) and White (43.31%) individuals.
• AOGs, Gaos, Gosa, goas
Source: Wiktionary
Sa"go, n. Etym: [Malay. sagu.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 May 2025
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