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English Idioms :: session
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sesmic.html - See: BULL SESSION. |
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Traditional English :: sesame
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sesmic.html - n. Bot. 1 an E. Indian herbaceous plant, Sesamum indicum, with seeds used as food and yielding an edible oil. 2 its seeds. open sesame a means of acquiring or achieving what is normally unattainable (from the magic words used in the Arabian Nights' Entertainments). [L sesamum f. Gk sesamon, sesame] |
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Traditional English :: sesamoid
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sesmic.html - adj. & n. --adj. shaped like a sesame seed; nodular (esp. of small independent bones developed in tendons passing over an angular structure such as the kneecap and the navicular bone). --n. |
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Traditional English :: sesqui-
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sesmic.html - comb. form 1 denoting one and a half. 2 Chem. (of a compound) in which there are three equivalents of a named element or radical to two others. [L (as SEMI-, -que and)] |
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Traditional English :: sesquicentenary
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sesmic.html - n.
(pl. -ies) a one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary. |
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Traditional English :: sesquicentennial
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sesmic.html - n. & adj. --n. --adj. of or relating to a sesquicentennial. |
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