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sego lily
noun
- a plant, Calochortus nuttallii, of the lily family, native to the western U.S., having showy, bell-shaped flowers: the state flower of Utah.
- its edible root.
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Origin of sego lily1
An Americanism dating back to 1910–15
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It has gone through various updates, and includes images of an American bald eagle, arrows, sego lilies and a beehive on a white shield, the words “Industry†and “Utah.â€
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Wildflowers crowded my wheels: blue flax and sego lily, golden pea and spiderwort.
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Wood spies dried sego lily flowers and starts digging for something that helped sustain the Utah pioneers.
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The ephemeral bloom of a sego lily peeks from the toe of a ninety-foot stone arch, and canyon wrens call back and forth in plaintive tones from a thatch of scrub oak.
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Here we found a sego lily, one of the most beautiful of flowers.
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