| 单词 | sego lily |
| 释义 | > as lemmassego lily A showy-flowered plant, Calochortus Nuttallii, of the western United States, with an edible bulb. Also sego lily. ΚΠ 1851 H. Howe Hist. Coll. Great West 432 Hogs fatten on a succulent bulb or tuber, called the Seacoe, or Seegose Root, which is highly esteemed as a table vegetable by the Mormons. 1852 H. Stansbury Explor. & Surv. Valley Great Salt Lake (U.S. Army: Corps Topogr. Engineers) 160 Sego..is much used by the Indian tribes as an article of food. 1875 Amer. Naturalist 9 18 The general Indian name of ‘Sego’ is applied indiscriminately to all the edible bulbs of this region [sc. Utah]. 1883 Harper's Mag. Oct. 709/2. 1915 M. Armstrong & J. J. Thornber Field Bk. Western Wild Flowers 64 [The mariposa] is called Sego Lily..in Utah and is the ‘State flower’. 1963 J. J. Craighead et al. Field Guide Rocky Mt. Wildflowers 18 Sego Lily... A white tuliplike flower with a triangular cup-shaped appearance. < as lemmas |
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