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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Sago palm (0.00840 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Sago palm.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sago palm sago palm n 1: any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago 2: dwarf palmlike cycad of Japan that yields sago [syn: Cycas revoluta ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Sago palm Sago \Sa"go\ (s[=a]"g[-o]), n. [Malay. s[=a]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.). [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. [1913 Webster]

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