sesamumn.
/ˈsɛsəməm/ a. = sesame n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plant, nut, or bean yielding oil > [noun] > sesame plant or seed
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sesamum1577
sergelim1588
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oily corn1671
purging grain1688
oily-grain1753
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 32v What say you to Sesamum, that was greatly in vse in the olde tyme.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xl. 251 You must steepe your seedes in the oile of Sesamum, otherwise called Turkie millet.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 551 Rice, sugar-canes, corn, sesamum.
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 133 Common Sesamum, or Oily Grain.
1884 A. Lang Custom & Myth 93 The girl performs no magic feat, but merely throws sesamum on the ground to delay the cannibals.
b. attributive, as sesamum-cake, sesamum-oil, sesamum-plant, sesamum-seed.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 1054 Columella saith, that Sesamum seedes must be sowen after Autumne Æquinoctiall.
1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Sesamoide Sesamum Seeds.
1850 F. Mason Nat. Productions Burmah 176 The sesamum plant is largely cultivated by the Karens.
1863 R. F. Burton Abeokuta I. 132 Sesamum oil.
1891 Daily News 16 May 5/4 Sesamum cake..is..mixed with both Persian and Indian opium.
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