sego
Americannoun
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segos
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of sego
1850–55, < Southern Paiute siγoʔo
Example Sentences
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The ephemeral bloom of a sego lily peeks from the toe of a ninety-foot stone arch, and canyon wrens call back and forth in plaintive tones from a thatch of scrub oak.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Many people lived for weeks on "greens" and the roots of the sego and thistle.
From A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Nephi Anderson
Here we found a sego lily, one of the most beautiful of flowers.
From Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey
For instance, the sego lily bulbs, upon which the Utah pioneers subsisted for several seasons of famine, may possibly be made a cultivated crop.
From Dry-Farming : a System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall by John Andreas Widtsoe
On the upper bank of the canal, where the sagebrush stood untouched, Dorian that summer found the first sego blossoms.
From Dorian by Nephi Anderson
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