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Definition of Sesamum
1. Noun. Tropical African and Indian herbs.
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
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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