The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . [Also, comiptly, sii-irarroif; Mex. or Amer. Ind.] The giant cac-tus, Cereiis giganteus, a columnar species from25 to over 50 feet high, growing on stonymesas and low hills in .Arizona and adjacentparts of Mexico. The wood of the large strong ribsis hght and soft, solid, and susceptible of a beautiful pol-ish, and is indestructible in contact with the soil. It isused by the Indians for lances and bows, and by the set-tlers for of adobe houses, fencin
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . [Also, comiptly, sii-irarroif; Mex. or Amer. Ind.] The giant cac-tus, Cereiis giganteus, a columnar species from25 to over 50 feet high, growing on stonymesas and low hills in .Arizona and adjacentparts of Mexico. The wood of the large strong ribsis hght and soft, solid, and susceptible of a beautiful pol-ish, and is indestructible in contact with the soil. It isused by the Indians for lances and bows, and by the set-tlers for of adobe houses, fencing, etc. The ediblefruit is largely collected and dried by the Indians.—Sa-guaxo woodpecker, Ccntxirus uropygialis, the Gila wood-pecker: so called from its nesting in the giant is abundant in the valley of the Gila and the lower Colo-rado river, and is a near relative of the red-bellied wood-pecker, C. carolinus. See cut under ;rt7a/iff(/«. saguin (sagwin), II. [Also sagoin, sagouin,saiigldin, saglin; = F. sagouin, saiti to be < , native name near Bahia.] A SouthAmerican monkev of the genus iXatlilhrix personalUi\. = Syn. Saguin, sajou, sat, saimiri, sapajou. These are allnative iiaiiies of South American monkeys, now become in-extriiably by the different usages of authors,if indeed they had originally specific meanings. Sai is the sagiiin most general term, meaniiiK monkey. Sajnu and tapajoulire the same, a of oneof the genera Cekiu arui AMtg; liut mpajm haii liecomoassociated specially with AteUii, then nieaninf snider-mon-key. .>agum was one of the smaller species of Cehm butliccanie confused with »mi«iiVi. S,i,iuin and mitniri arenow speciidly attaelled to tlie small nonprehensiletiUledS(|miTel monkeys respectively of the genera CMithrixand Clirijtot/inx, but arc also loosely used for any of theniiirniosets. Saguinus (sag-u-inus), n. [NL. (Lae^p&.le) *?(/,/«(».]
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