sesameseed

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A form of sesame seed — An edible seed of the sesame plant, Sesamum indicum.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounsesameseed (plural sesameseeds)

plural sesameseeds

  1. rareRare form of sesame seed.

    Sesameseed Rolls

    1934 March 9, The Covina Argus, volume 49, number 10, Covina, Calif., page eight
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    For fat, the natives prefer palm oil, but also use peanuts and sesameseeds or shea butter, especially north of the seventh parallel (11, pp. 33-43).

    1942 March, Pieter K. Roest, “French Equatorial Africa”, in Foreign Agriculture, volume 6, number 3, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 93

    Traditionally, the Sudan has been the world’s leading exporter of sesameseeds. Value of sesame shipments rose from $16.2 million in 1962-64 to $23 million in 1969. Sesameseeds are shipped mainly to Italy and Japan.

    1972 March 6, William F. Hall, “Sudan Buys U.S. Wheat For the First Time Since Arab-Israeli Conflict”, in Foreign Agriculture, volume X, number 10, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 9, column 2

    When people join together to stir up the Yu-sarng which has been overlaid with sauce, wine and sesameseeds, they plunge their chop-sticks into the mass of raw fish and ingredients and shout to each other with glee, lou hei, lou hei, which carries the implication, “let’s all enjoy success together in all our undertakings”.

    1984, Lai Kuan Fook, The Hennessy Book of Chinese Festivals, Kuala Lumpur: Heinemann Asia, →ISBN, page 5, column 2

    Double bacon cheese burger with grilled onion on a sesameseed bun

    1985 June 5, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 19, number 33, San Francisco, Calif., page 12

    The Government has encouraged a shift of some area, traditionally planted with cotton, to other crops such as sesameseeds, soybeans, peanuts, and sunflowerseeds.

    1992 August, Robert L. Tetrault, “Cotton Production in Mexico and Central America”, in World Agricultural Production, Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, page 40
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