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Sacred lily
Answer for the clue "Sacred lily ", 4 letters:
sego
Alternative clues for the word sego
Word definitions for sego in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sego \Se"go\, n. (Bot.) A liliaceous plant ( Calochortus Nuttallii ) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.
Usage examples of sego.
At four o'clock in the morning the first rays of the sun lighted up Sego, the capital of Bambarra, which could be recognized at once by the four towns that compose it, by its Saracenic mosques, and by the incessant going and coming of the flat-bottomed boats that convey its inhabitants from one quarter to the other.
He advanced in person on the town of Sego, which was a long time threatened.
While walking through the trees at the far end, I killed a sage hen and made a thick broth, using wild onions, breadroot, and the bulbs of the sego lily.
Towns with names like Freemont and Green River and Sego and Thompson and Harley Dome.
Then I emerged on a high plateau where a long wind stole softly across the open levels fresh with sage and sego lilies.