sego
- noun
- /ˈsiːɡoʊ/
- US
:
lirio sego
- The sego lily blooms with beautiful white flowers in the spring.
- sego lily
Examples
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Many hikers admire the sego lily along the trails in the desert landscape.
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The biscuit root, the sego lily, and the shooting star still grow.
Fiction book (1992) -
Cummings' analysis yielded evidence that the PPOs were used to cook sego lily, so the authors wove both the PPOs and sego lily into the book.
Academic text (2004) -
Cummings' analysis yielded evidence that the PPOs were used to cook sego lily, so the authors wove both the PPOs and sego lily into the book.
Academic text (2004) -
In Utah, the sego lily is a beloved symbol of resilience and beauty.
Synonyms
A plant that lives many years with white bell-shaped flowers and edible bulbs from western North America
Compounds
- US
A plant that lives many years with white bell-shaped flowers and edible bulbs from western North America
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word sego comes from a Native American Shoshone word for the plant or its 'bulb', which pioneers also ate in hard times. That's why sego now names the white or yellow lily that is famous in Utah.
