Definition of Sesamum

1. Noun. Tropical African and Indian herbs.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sesamum
Generic synonyms: Plant Genus
Group relationships: Family Pedaliaceae, Pedaliaceae, Sesame Family
Member holonyms: Benne, Benni, Benny, Sesame, Sesamum Indicum

Definition of Sesamum

1. Noun. (archaic) sesame ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sesamum

sesame family
sesame leaf
sesame oil
sesame seed
sesames
sesamin
sesamoid
sesamoid bone
sesamoid cartilage of larynx
sesamoid cartilages of nose
sesamoidal
sesamoiditis
sesamoids
sesamol
sesamolin
sesamum (current term)
sesban
sesbania
sesbans
sese
seselis
sesey
sesh
seshes
sesiid
sesiids
sesqui-
sesquialter
sesquialtera
sesquialterate

Literary usage of Sesamum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bacteria in Relation to Plant Diseases by Erwin Frink Smith (1914)
"In 1903 a bacterial disease of sesamum was described by Malkoff, ... It appeared on the early Bulgarian sesamum first, but later occurred on the two Asiatic ..."

2. Materia Medica: For the Use of Students by John Barclay Biddle (1874)
"... digestive, and urinary organs, and poultices made of the bruised or powdered root are used externally. sesamum — BENNE. This is the product of sesamum ..."

3. Vegetable Substances: Materials of Manufactures (1833)
"The seeds of the oil plant, or sesamum orientale, produce oil very abundantly. ... The sesamum has an herbaceous four-cornered stalk about two feet high, ..."

4. A Manual of organic materia medica by John Michael Maisch (1890)
"... etc.; ash 7 per cent. Dose, 16 to 50 grams (5ss-jss), in infusion. sesamum.—BENNE. Origin.—sesamum indicum, Linne. ..."

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