WordNet
sego lily
n. perennial plant having umbellike clusters of one to four showy white bell-shaped flowers atop erect unbranched stems; edible bulbs useful in times of scarcity; eastern Montana and western North Dakota south to northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico [syn: Calochortus nuttallii]
Wikipedia
Sego Lily (disambiguation)
Sego Lily may refer to:
- Calochortus nuttallii, the state flower of Utah
- Sego Lily, the newsletter of the Utah Native Plant Society
Usage examples of "sego lily".
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.
Several times I caught fish, never large enough, and found clumps of sego lily and ate the bulbs.
He was still two hundred yards off and cutting across a field bright with larkspur, paintbrush, and sego lily when he saw Piute Bill come to the door, a Winchester in his hands.