Definition of Sepium

1. cuttle bone [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepium

sephiroth
sepia
sepiapterin synthase
sepias
sepic
sepidaceous
sepiment
sepiments
sepiolid
sepiolids
sepiolite
sepiolites
sepiost
sepiostare
sepiosts
sepium (current term)
sepiums
sepmag
seponate
seponated
seponation
seposition
sepoy
sepoys
seppuku
seppukus
seprase
seps
sepses
sepsin

Literary usage of Sepium

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

1. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1900)
"The position of the trapezoidal tubercles places sepium in an advanced position ... A cursory glance is quite insufficient to distinguish the male of sepium ..."

2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"Note on Linaria sepium, Allman. By CHARLES C. BABINGTON, MA, FRS &e.* EARLY in the summer of 1855 I succeeded in obtaining seeds of this plant from roots ..."

3. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"... L. ; C. maritimum, L. ; Rumex crispus, L. ; Plantago major, L; Calystegia sepium, Br.; C. Soldanella, Br. ; Sonchus oleraceus, ..."

4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1847)
"... Vicia cracca, sepium, lutea, saliva : Lathyrus pratensis ;—in all thirty-four species ; and most of them in profusion." CA JOHNS. ..."

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