Sego

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The succulent edible bulb of the sego lily.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A perennial bulb lily found in Western North America, the Calochortus nuttallii, which has trumpet-shaped flowers.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A showy flowered plant, Calochortus Nuttallii, widely distributed in the western United States.
    • Word Usage
    "It was the "sego" of the Indians (_Calochortus luteus_), and they knew that at its roots grew tubers, as large as filberts, and delicious eating when cooked."
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
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