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Definition of False sago
1. Noun. Southeastern Indian cycad with palmlike foliage.
Group relationships: Cycas, Genus Cycas
Generic synonyms: Cycas Revoluta, Sago Palm
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Sago
Literary usage of False sago
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microbiology and Microanalysis of Foods by Albert Schneider (1920)
"Much of this false sago is made from corn starch. 2. Canna starch from several
species of Canna. The markings are very distinct, the hili being at the ..."
2. The Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things by John Denison Champlin (1884)
"A good deal of false sago, made from potato starch, is sent from Germany and sold
for the East Indian sago. The word sago is from sagu, the Malay name for ..."
3. Bacteriological Methods in Food and Drug Laboratories: With an Introduction by Albert Schneider (1915)
"Much of this false sago is made from corn starch. 2. Canna starch from several
species of Canna. The markings are very distinct, the hili being at the ..."
4. Bacteriological Methods in Food and Drug Laboratories: With an Introduction by Albert Schneider (1915)
"Much of this false sago is made from corn starch. 2. Canna starch from several
species of Canna. The markings are very distinct, the hili being at the ..."
5. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"Cycas revoluta, a native of Japan, supplies a kind of starch which Is used as
sago; and a similar kind of false sago is supplied by Cycas circinalis in the ..."