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A tropical Asian plant (Sesamum indicum) bearing small flat seeds used as food and as a source of oil.
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The seed of this plant.
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Examples of sesame in a Sentence
The chief products are coffee, sesame, the sugar-cane, cocoa, vanilla and tobacco.
Among other important productions of the Ottoman Empire are sesame, coleseed, castor oil, flax, hemp, aniseed, mohair, saffron, olive oil, gums, scammony and liquorice.
Local products, including kat, firewood, live animals, ghi, dates, honey, wax, gums and sesame oil, to the value of about £125,000, were exported in 1919-20.1,065 steam vessels of aggregate tonnage 2,736,391 and sailing craft of tonnage 365,569 cleared in the year ending March 1919.
The summer crops (millet, sesame, figs, melons, grapes, olives, &c.) are fertilized by the heavy " dews " which are one of the most remarkable climatic features of the country and to a large extent atone for the total lack of rain for one half the year.
Many species are rich in gums and resins; the calambac, mastic, copal, cedar, &c. Many others are oleaginous, among them, peanuts, sun-flowers, the bene seed (sesame), corozo, almond and palmachristi.
Besides wheat, the following crops are to a greater or less extent cultivated - barley, millet, sesame, maize, beans, peas, lentils, kursenni (a species of vetch used as camel-food) and, in some parts of the country, tobacco.
Millet and sesame are the principal grains cultivated.
Gum copal, ground-nuts and sesame are largely cultivated, partly for ' Numerous remains of a stone age have been discovered, both on the coast and in the hinterland.
Business, rapidly declining, is still carried on in wheat, maize, oil, sesame, &c., in the town market.
Of oil-yielding plants the castor-oil plant, sesame, linseed and olive are cultivated, the last only in a small district south of and near Resht.
Excellent crops of wheat, barley, maize, sesame, millet, cotton, opium, tobacco and rice are grown, and several of the oases, e.g.
There is a general tendency to obesity, which is much admired by the Moors in their women, young girls being stuffed like chickens, with paste-balls mixed with honey, or with spoonfuls of olive oil and sesame, to give them the necessary corpulence.
Wheat, barley, millet and sesame are cultivated on the plain, but fruit and vegetables have mostly to be imported from Persia.
The chief productions of the province are cotton, corn, sesame and wool, which are largely exported.
The vrivTELa on the third day of the Thesmophoria at Athens was observed only by the women attending the festival (who were permitted to eat cakes made of sesame and honey).
The plains of Esdraelon, and the Buttauf, and the plateau of el-Ahma are all remarkable for the rich basaltic soil which covers them, in which corn, cotton, maize, sesame, tobacco, millet and various kinds of vegetable are grown, while indigo and sugar-cane were cultivated in former times.
Ground-nuts and sesame are grown in large quantities for the oil they yield, and cotton of quality equal to that grown in the Delta is produced.
Cotton, cotton-seed and grain (durra, wheat, barley) sesame, livestock, hides and skins, beeswax, mother-of-pearl, senna and gold are also exported.
With one or two exceptions (detection of sesame oil and perhaps also of cotton-seed oil) all colour reactions are entirely useless.
On the continent of Europe the largest oil-trading centres are on the Mediterranean (Marseilles and Triest), which are geographically more favourably placed than England for the production of such edible oils (in addition to the home-grown olive oil) as arachis oil, sesame oil and coco-nut oil.
The imports are largely cotton goods, provisions, timber and cement; the exports gum, raw cotton, ivory, sesame, durra, senna, coffee (from Abyssinia), goat skins, &c. Forty miles north of Port Sudan is Mahommed Gul, the port for the mines of Gebet, worked by an English company.
Sesame seeds, eggs, dairy and shellfish can also provoke anaphylaxis.
It's almost impossible to get a hamburger bun without sesame seeds sprinkled on top.
Plain cookies with a handful of sesame seeds or desiccated coconut added into the dough are delicious.
Mix together 1tsp each of olive oil, sesame oil and lemon or lime juice and ½ tsp coriander seeds.
Langoustines were served separately the first time, set in a sharp red pepper coulis topped with micro thin sesame seed biscuits.
In this study, observations of ozone laminae made in Feb. 1995 during the SESAME campaign were modeling using the contour advection technique.
Specialists in Peking and Cantonese cuisine - their aromatic crispy duck is fabulous, as is their sesame prawn toast.
Sesame oil is a rich source of polyunsaturated fatty acids and it contains potent free radical scavengers.
Grind toasted sesame seeds to a meal in a electric blender.
Small-scale farmers often grow sesame as a cash crop, but face economic and technical barriers to improve their returns.
We only use white sesame, which is also used in the form of flour for making bread.
My daughter had an absolute facination with loos She saw a toilet as an open sesame to the rest of a house or building.
Rice balls can also be coated with whole or ground sesame seeds.
This rich, golden seasoning has been made from the highest quality sesame seeds, carefully roasted then pressed to expel their fragrant oil.
They also contain sunflower, pumpkin, sesame and poppy seeds.
Sources of linoleic acid include full-fat sunflower margarine or sunflower margarine or sunflower, safflower or sesame seed cooking oils.
Our version includes crushed organic thyme, non-organic sumac, organic toasted sesame seeds and sea salt.
For starters, we had spring rolls, prawn crackers, sesame toasts, deep-fried mushrooms and chicken wings.
The beauty and gorgeous imagery of his art works bore away the public from the first, in spite of their heretical dogmatism and their too frequent extravagance of rhetoric. But his later economic and social pieces, such as Unto this Last, Time and Tide, Sesame and Lilies, are composed in the purest and most lucid of English styles.
Honey Sesame Scrub (40 minutes) Honey and sesame mixture is applied through your whole body, refreshing and revitalizing skin.
Press the thumb on the pieces, arranged on a plate with sesame seeds, to give them the shape of rose petals.
Give yourself a full body massage with warm sesame oil at least once a week.
Popular in Middle Eastern cuisine, tahini is a thick, smooth sesame paste rich in both calcium and protein.
Pure Sesame Oil can be used to nourish the skin or massage the body for a smooth, silky soft skin texture.
Warm a skillet on a medium flame and add the sesame oil.
Add the sherry, and finish with the mange tout peas, beansprouts, and roasted sesame seeds.
She may exhibit a similar response when you put on a new Sesame Street video or a Teletubbies DVD.
Character Themes- Many parents love choosing popular characters for their child's nursery theme, such as Pooh Bear and friends, Sesame Street Characters, Dora the Explorer, and others.
Choose from videos like Baby Einstein or Classical Baby or add videos from popular TV shows, like Sesame Street or Blue's Clues.