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Definition of Sesame family
1. Noun. The family of plants of order Polemoniales.
Generic synonyms: Plant Family
Group relationships: Order Polemoniales, Polemoniales
Member holonyms: Genus Martynia, Genus Sesamum, Sesamum, Genus Proboscidea, Proboscidea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sesame Family
Literary usage of Sesame family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"... THE sesame family. or six inches in length and breadth, and in form nearly
cordate; the peduncles are nearly erect, but the flowers half-pendulous; ..."
2. A Siamese-English Dictionary by Basil Osborn Cartwright (1907)
"M n. va plant of the sesame family. v- to be ashamed. n. corner, angle. •lOW adj.
arrogant. • / */ n. ancient war vessel. n^l tt-3 n-3 ^OW adv. deceitfully, ..."
3. The Congressional Globe by United States Congress, Francis Preston Blair, John Cook Rives, Franklin Rives, George A. Bailey (1856)
"sir, suppose that all the republicans had met (agreeably to open invitation) like
brethren °f 'sesame family, as they did on all former occa- i ..."
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