Sag it tar i us (sajitarius)

[ L.sag it tar i us, an archer: see sagittary.] 1. A southern zodiacal constellation and sign, the Archer, rep IMG:content-2709.jpg:[blocks in formation] resenting a centaur (originally doubtle some Babylonian divinity) drawing a bow. The constellation is situated east of Scorpio, and is, especially in the latitudes of the southern United States, a prominent object on summer evenings. The symbol of the constellation shows the Archer's arrow and part of the bow. 2. In her., the representation of a centaur carrying a bow and arrow.-3. [NL. (Vosmaer, 1769).] The typical genus of Sagittariidæ: so called, it is said, from the arrowy crest; the secretary-birds. This is the earliest name of the genus, which is also known as Serpentarius ( Cuvier, 1798), Secretarius ( Daudin, 1800), usually Gypogeranus ( Illiger, 1811), and Ophiotheres ( Vieillot, 1816); but Vosmaer does not appear to have used it as a technical New Latin designation, though it has often been taken as such by subsequent writers, following H. E. Strick land. See cuts under desmognathous and secretary - bird. Sagittidæ (sā-jit'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., Sagitta +-idæ.] A family of worms, typified by the genus Sagitta, and the only one of the order Chætognatha and cla Aphanozoa. They are small marine creatures, from half an inch to an inch long, transparent, unsegmented, without parapodia, with chitinous proce es which serve as jaws, and with lateral cuticular proce es. The structure is anomalous, and the converted into pearl-sago. This is the ordinary granulated sago of the market, consisting of fine pearly grains, brownish or sometimes bleached white, prepared by making the meal into a paste and pre ing this through a sieve.Japan sago, a farinaceous material derived from different species of Cycas. Pearl sago. See pearl - sago.-Portland sago, a delicate and nutritious farina extracted from the corm or tuber of the European wake-robin, Arum maе ulatum. It was formerly prepared in considerable quantity in the Isle of Portland, England. Also called Port land arrowroot. - Sago-meal, sago in a fine powder.Wild sago, Zamia integrifolia ( Z. pumila ) of Jamaica and Florida, whose stem furnishes a sago-starch or arrowroot, See coontie. sagoin, sagouin, n. Same as saguin. sago-palm (sāgō-päm), n. Either of the two palms Metrox ylon lævis and M. Rumphii. See Metroxylon and sago. Other palms yielding sago are the Phœ nix far in if era in Singapore, the ge. Sago-palm ( Metroxylon lævis), a, the fruit. bang-palm, Corypha Gebanga, in Java, the jaggery palm or bastard sago, Caryota urens, in Mysore, and the palmyra and the areng or gomuti elsewhere in India. Species of Cycas are also called sago - palm. See Cycas. sago-plant (sāgō-plant), n. Arum maculatum. See Portland sago , under sago . sago-spleen (sāgō-splēn), n. A spleen in which the Malpighian corpuscles are enlarged and lardaceous, presenting the appearance of boiled sago. Sagra (sa gra), n . and nematoids before an order was instituted for their reception. See cut under Sagitta. sagittilingual (saj"i-ti-ling'gwal), a. [L. sagitta, an arrow, + lingua, the tongue: see lingual.] Having a long slender cylindrical Sagittilingual.-Anterior Part of Tongue of Woodpecker ( Hyloto mus pileatus). (About twice natural size tongue barbed at the end and capable of being thrust out like an arrow, as a woodpecker; belonging to the Sag it til in gues. Sag it til in guest (saj"i-ti-ling'gwēz), n.pl. [NL.: see sagittilingual.] In Illiger's system of cla ification (1811), the woodpeckers. See Picidæ. sag it to cyst (saj'i-to-sist), n. [L. sagitta, an arrow, + Gr. κύστις, bladder: see cyst.] One of the cutaneous cells of turbellarian worms, containing rhabdites. Sagmarius (sag-mā'ri-us), n. [NL., NL. Sagma, a star so called): see seam2.] The constellation Pegasus, in which the star Sagma is seen. sagmatorhine (sag-mat'ō-rin), a. [NL. Sag matorrhina (Bonaparte, 1851) ( = Malay sagu , sāgu , sago, the farinaceous and glutinous pith of a tree of the palm kind named rumbiya .] An amylaceous food derived from the soft spongy interior, the so-called "pith," of the trunks of various palms. (See sago - palm .) The tree, which in the case of the proper sago-palms naturally flowers but once, is felled when just ready to flower, the trunk cut in pieces, the pith-like matter separated, and the starch washed from it. After due settling, the water is drained off, and the deposited starch may be caked, as it is for native use, or dried into a meal which is -idæ.] A family of Coleoptera, typified by the genus Sagra. It is now merged in the Chryso melidæ.